City
Carsulis
Piano del Cavliere zwischen Arsoli und Carsoli [2 · 3]
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Carsulis, better known as Carseoli, was a hill town of the Aequi that Rome turned into a Latin colony around 300 BC, on the Via Valeria forty-two miles from the capital. Its ruins lie on the Piano del Cavaliere between Arsoli and Carsoli. The poet Ovid stayed here and remembered a narrow, cold valley where grain grew but olives would not. Its strong position made it a place of detention for state prisoners, among them Bithys, son of a Thracian king, in 168 BC. The map has a slip here: it wrongly joins the road from Treba to the town instead of to Subiaco.