Via Laurentina

The Via Laurentina is the name born by an ancient and a modern road of Italy, both leading southwards from Rome.

The ancient road

The question of the nomenclature of the group of roads between the

Pomonal or sacred grove of Pomona) and which later belonged to Gaius Marius.^[1]

The modern road

dead soldiers (1961), erected along the Via Laurentina

The modern road begins in Rome, in the

Basilica di San Paolo fuori le mura, was known since the 16th century as the Ponticello di San Paolo, because of a short bridge now covered by the current road that allowed the crossing of the Via Ostiense on the marrana of Grotta Perfetta, which at a short distance from there discharges into the Tiber

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The Via Laurentina, leading towards south, first delimits the border between the districts of Eur (to the west) and Ardeatino and Giuliano-Dalmata (to the east), then between the Fonte Ostiense area and the Giuliano-Dalmata district: it then divides the Vallerano and Castel di Decima areas from the Castel di Leva area. Leaving Rome, at the intersection with the road to Albano, it crosses Santa Procula, a hamlet of Pomezia, then crosses the SS148 state road (via Pontina), which leads to Latina, and finally arrives to Ardea.

After Ardea the road ends at the seaside resort of Tor San Lorenzo where it flows into the SS601 state road

Ostia-Anzio

(via Litoranea).

Along the road, at km 14, it lies the Laurentino Cemetery. It contains a portion called the Garden of Angels, dedicated to deceased children and unborn babies.

All Souls Day in the Garden in 2018.^[2]

References

^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Ashby, Thomas (1911). "Laurentina, Via". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 285.
^ "Pope Francis celebrates All Souls' Day Mass in Rome catacombs".

[EB1911-1] One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Ashby, Thomas (1911). "Laurentina, Via". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 285.

[2] "Pope Francis celebrates All Souls' Day Mass in Rome catacombs".

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