Road station
Lavinium
Pratica di Mare
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Thirteen stone altars standing in a row, dating from the sixth to the second century BC, mark the great sanctuary of Lavinium at Pratica di Mare, and nearby an old burial mound was rebuilt in the fourth century BC as a shrine, probably the one shown as the tomb of Aeneas. Legend said Aeneas founded the town and named it after his wife Lavinia, and it remained the home of the Penates, the household gods brought from Troy.