Cisterna

Cisterna is a town and comune inside the province of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, of Italy. It was the scene of the Battle of Cisterna in January 1944. The Garden of Ninfa is positioned in the commune's territory. The town, then referred to as Tres Tabernae is mentioned inside the Acts of the Apostles as one of the towns wherein Saint Paul stopped on his manner to Rome. At Finocchione, in the territory of Cisterna, strains of prehistoric human presence had been observed. In historic times, the Volsci founded right here their nevertheless unidentified centre called Ulubrae, despite the fact that the lost metropolis of Suessa Pometia can also were located nearby.

Ulubrae is cited by using Horace, Pliny the Elder, Suetonius, Cicero and Juvenal, regarding the severa patrician villas built here. According to Suetonius, Augustus lived right here in his own family villa till the age of 18. A village, known as Tres Tabernae, originated beginning from 312 BC as a post station at the Via Appia, its call stemming from the presence of 3 taverns. The site is referred to inside the Acts of the Apostles as the vicinity in which St. Paul stopped at some stage in his adventure to Rome, and was housed by way of the neighborhood Christian community.