Road station
Via Latina
Via Latina is one of the oldest roads out of Rome, older even than the Via Appia, for unlike most Roman roads it bears no builder's name. Its name may come simply from Latium, the land it crossed, or from the temple of Jupiter Latiaris on the Alban Mount, perhaps its first destination. By 294 BC the whole road as far as Casilinum near Capua, where it met the Appia, was called the Latina, and together the two were Rome's main routes to the south. Its oldest milestone dates from 127 BC, and along its first miles lay several early Christian catacombs.