But even one of the most important routes of communication between the Apennines and the Tyrrhenian was under Praeneste’s control, that is to say the path that, passing through the territory of Tivoli, emerged at Anzio. Between VII and VI century and until the middle of the 5th century B.C.
Within the territory of the ancient Latium, the area, that is, between the Tiber to the North, the Lepini Mountains to the south, the sea to the west and the Preappenninici mountains to the east, the city of Palestrina, whose Latin name was Praeneste, occupies a strategic position of considerable importance: from the top of Mount Ginestro, at the top of which was the acropolis (the current Castel San Pietro Romano), surrounded by powerful walls, the city could control the valley of the Sacco, nodal point for the communications between Etruria and Campania, a region in which the Etruscans had rich settlements.
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