Colonna

Colonna is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome in the Italian region Latium, located about 20 kilometres southeast of Rome, on the Alban Hills. With a population of some 4,300, it is the smallest of the Castelli Romani.

The territory of Colonna is believed to have included the ancient community of Labici, located in the area of the modern comune of Monte Compatri. Labici was conquered in 418 BC by the Romans under the dictator Quintus Servilius Priscus Structus Fidenas and razed to the ground. The Labicani then founded Labicum Quintanas near the Tower of the Pasolina near Colonna. The place is noted as Ad Quintanas, a station on the Via Labicana, between Rome and Ad Bivium.

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