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Updated: May 22, 2025
Further, there is to be added to the fortunate situation of Praeneste with regard to her own territory and that of her contiguous dependencies, her position at a spot which almost forced upon her a wide territorial influence, for Monte Glicestro faces exactly the wide and deep depression between the Volscian mountains and the Alban Hills, and is at the same time at the head of the Trerus-Liris valley.
The topography of Praeneste as to the site of the city proper, and as to its territorial domain is then, about as follows. In very early times, probably as early as the ninth or tenth century B.C., Praeneste was a town on the southern slope of Monte Glicestro, with an arx on the summit.
The two roads which were traveled the most were the ones that led toward Rome. This is shown by the tombs on both sides of them, and by the discovery of a deposit of a great quantity of ex voto terracottas in the angle between the two. In very early times there was a spring near the top of Monte Glicestro.
This limestone mountain, the modern Monte Glicestro, presents on the north a precipitous and unapproachable side to the Sabines, but turns a fairer face to the southern and western plain.
Monte Glicestro is of limestone pushed up through the tertiary crust by volcanic forces, but the long ridges which run off to the northwest are of lava, while the shorter and wider ones extending toward the southwest are of tufa. These ridges are from three to seven miles in length.
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