Praeneste
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Italy's Ministry of Culture has designated the area as an archaeological park, now managed as part of the Musei e Parchi Archeologici di Praeneste e Gabii.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2025
Praeneste, often mentioned by the classical writers, was an ancient religious center 23 miles east of Rome in the Sabine hills.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nor was the founder of Praeneste city absent, the king who, as every age hath believed, was born of Vulcan among the pasturing herds, and found beside the hearth, Caeculus.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
Praeneste fell soon after; Marius committed suicide, and except at a few isolated points all resistance in Italy was over.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
Conon, bishop of Praeneste, whose real name may have been Conrad, came to France as papal legate on at least two occasions.
From Historia Calamitatum by Peter Abelard
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