Capena is an ancient city near Rome, Italy. Its territory is known as the Ager Capenas, which was a Faliscan area adjacent (and culturally allied to) Etruria. It is frequently mentioned alongside of Veii, Falerii and Lucus Feroniae. City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Left-Wing Democrats) Area - City Proper 1290 km² Population - City (2004) - Metropolitan - Density (city proper) 2,823,807 almost 4,000,000 1... Etruria was an ancient country in Central Italy, located in an area that covered part of what now are Tuscany, Latium and Umbria. ... Veii - or Veius - was in ancient times, an important Etrurian city 18 km NNW of Rome, Italy. ... Falerii (now Cività Castellana), one of the twelve chief cities of Etruria, situated about one mile west of the ancient Via Flaminia, 32 miles north Rome. ... Lucus Feroniae, an ancient shrine in Etruria. ...
Jones, G. D. B. 1962. “Capena and the Ager Capenas,” in Papers of the British School at Rome 30, 116-207.
CAPENA, an ancient city of southern Etruria, frequently mentioned with Veii and Falerii.
According to Cato it was a colony of the former, and in the wars betweenVeii and Romeitappears as dependent upon Veii, after the fall of which town, however, it became subject to Rome.
But there are difficulties in the way of this assumption, and it is more probable that the Lucus Feroniae is to be sought at or near Nazzano, where, in the excavation of a circular building which some conjecture to have been the actual temple of Feronia, inscriptions relating to a municipality were found.
We arrive in the eternal city ready for action because basically we have zero idea where Capena really is. All we know is that it is outside of Rome somewhere.
All of old Capena is on an ancient aqueduct and at the very back is a cellar that drops down to the aqueduct were they used to store the wine in jars.
Around Capena and most of Lazio they produce a crisp semi sweet white wine that is excellent.
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