Via Tiburtina, an ancient road of Italy, leading east northeast from Rome to Tibur, a distance of about 18 miles. It must have come into existence, as a track at any rate, during the establishment of the Latin League. Though it afterwards became an important thoroughfare, the first portion of it always retained its original name, that of Via Valeria being applied only to the portion of the road beyond Tibur. The road is in the main followed by a modern highroad. There is, however, a difficulty about the last portion of its course from the Albulae Aquae (q.v.) to Tibur; whereas, according to the milestones and itineraries, it should be 20 miles from Rome to Tibur, it is impossible to make the distance more than 18 miles along any probable line. 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 (Democratici di Sinistra) Area  - City Proper  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost 4,000,000 1... Tivoli (population 55,000), the classical Tibur, is an ancient Italian town some 20 km from Rome (Latium), at the falls of the Aniene, where it issues from the Sabine hills. ... The Latin League was an alliance of Rome and the many other cities and villages in and around the area of Latium. ... Via Valeria, an ancient Roman road of Italy was the continuation north-eastwards of the Via Tiburtina. ... Albulae Aquae (The White Water) a group of springs, 4 miles West of Tivoli, the water of which is bluish, strongly impregnated with sulphur and carbonate of lime, and rises at a temperature of about 24 C. Remains of a Roman thermal establishment exist near the principal spring, the so...

See T. Ashby in Papers of the British School at Rome, iii. 84 sqq.

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