Tusculum

Tusculum was an ancient Roman city in the , in the Latium region of . Tusculum was most famous in Roman times for the many great and luxurious patrician country villas sited close to the city, yet a comfortable distance from Rome, notably the villas of Cicero and Lucullus.
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  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: ancient Latin and Roman city and archeological site in the Alban Hills of Latium, Italy
  • Also known as: “Túscia”, “Túscolo”, “Tusculaner”, “Tusculo”, “Tusculum (Latium)”, “Τούσκλο”, “Τούσκουλουμ”, “Тускульская усадьба”, and “トゥスクラム”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Roman Theatre of Tusculum and Villa Falconieri.

Archaeological site
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is an archaeological site, which is situated 300 metres east of Tusculum.

Park
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The is a villa in , . is situated 1½ km northwest of Tusculum.

Church
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is situated 2 km west of Tusculum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Castelli Romani and Frascati.

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The Roman Castles are a group of comuni in the .

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is one of the Castelli Romani, historic hill towns southeast of .

Town
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is a comune in the Metropolitan City… is situated 3 km northeast of Tusculum.

Tusculum

Latitude
41.79771° or 41° 47′ 52″ north
Longitude
12.70704° or 12° 42′ 25″ east
Elevation
615 metres (2,018 feet)
Open location code
8FHJQPX4+3R
Open­Street­Map ID
way 229696611
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Geo­Names ID
10376743
Wiki­data ID
Q754314
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In Other Languages

From Ancient Greek to Ukrainian—“Tusculum” goes by many names.
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Τούσκουλον”
  • Bulgarian: “Тускулум”
  • Catalan: “Tusculum”
  • Catalan: “Túsculum”
  • Chinese: “图斯库鲁姆”
  • Chinese: “特斯古林”
  • Czech: “Tusculum”
  • Czech: “Tuskulum”
  • Danish: “Tusculum”
  • Dutch: “Tusculum”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “توسكولوم”
  • Esperanto: “Tusculum”
  • Finnish: “Tusculum”
  • French: “Tusculum”
  • German: “Tusculum”
  • Greek: “Τούσκουλο”
  • Hebrew: “טוסקולום”
  • Hungarian: “Tusculum”
  • Indonesian: “Tusculum”
  • Italian: “Tuscolo”
  • Italian: “Tusculum”
  • Japanese: “トゥスクルム”
  • Latin: “Tusculum”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tusculum”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tusculum”
  • Norwegian: “Tusculum”
  • Persian: “توسکولوم”
  • Polish: “Tusculum”
  • Portuguese: “Túsculo”
  • Portuguese: “Tusculum”
  • Romanian: “Tusculum”
  • Russian: “Тускул”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tuskul”
  • Spanish: “Tusculum”
  • Swedish: “Tusculum”
  • Ukrainian: “Тускулум”

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