Velletri

Velletri is an Italian comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, on the Alban Hills, in Lazio, critical Italy. Neighbouring communes are Rocca di Papa, Lariano, Cisterna di Latina, Artena, Aprilia, Nemi, Genzano di Roma, and Lanuvio. Velletri changed into an ancient city of the Volsci tribe. It came into battle with the Romans for the duration of the reign of Ancus Marcius, the fourth king of Rome, and within the 5^th and 4^th centuries BCE, throughout the early Roman Republic. In the Middle Ages it became one of the few "free cities" in Lazio and significant Italy.

It changed into the site of historical battles in 1744 and 1849. During the Second World War, it turned into on the centre of fierce combating between the Germans and the allies in 1944 after the Anglo-American landing at Anzio. Today, Velletri is domestic to a circuit courtroom and a prison, in addition to numerous colleges and excessive colleges. It is the terminus of the Rome-Velletri railway, inaugurated by using Pius IX in 1863, and is one of the centers the Via Appia Nuova passes through.