Saxa Rubra

settlement · 30 BC – 2099 AD

Saxa Rubra (modern Grottarossa) is the name of a road station on the Via Flaminia, nine Roman miles from the center of ancient Rome. It was at Saxa Rubra that Constantine I defeated Maxentius in A.D. 312.

Coordinates

41.97307, 12.47996

Also known as

Ad rubras (la), Adrvbras (la), Grottarossa (it), Grottarossa (it), Saxa rubra (la)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)

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