Tre Taverne (Latin:Tres Tabernae;Greek:Τρεῖς Ταβέρναι,Treis Tabernai) was a place on the ancientAppian Way, about 50 km (31 miles) fromRome, designed for the reception of travellers, as the name indicates.^[1]

Tres Tabernae originated as apost station on theAppian Way (Latin:Via Appia), around the 3rd century BC.

Here, the Christian saintPaul of Tarsus, on his way to Rome, was met by a band of Roman Christians (Acts 28:15). The "Tres Tabernae was the firstmansio ormutatio, that is, halting-place for relays, from Rome, or the last on the way to the city. At this point three roads run into the Via Appia, that fromTusculum, that fromAlba Longa, and that fromAntium; so necessarily here would be a halting-place, which took its name from the three shops there, the general store, the blacksmith's, and the refreshment-house...Tres Tabernae is translated as Three Taverns."^[2]

TheEncyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition identifies it as "an ancient village ofLatium, Italy, a post station on the Via Appia, at the point where the main road was crossed by a branch from Antium". It is by some fixed some 3 m. S.E. of the modern village ofCisterna just before the Via Appia enters thePontine Marshes, at a point where the modern road toNinfa andNorba diverges to the north-east, where a few ruins still exist (Grotte di Nottola), 33 m. from Rome.^[3] Others believe that it stood at Cisterna itself, where a branch road running from Antium by way ofSatricum actually joins the Via Appia.^[3] However, excavations that took place at km 58.1 of the Via Appia Nuova between 1993 and 2001 revealed abath plant and some further buildings.^{[citation needed]}

Around the 3rd century AD, the area was invaded by marshes, and the inhabitants of the nearbyUlubrae likely moved toTres Tabernae, which grew of importance and became a Christianepiscopal see with aPalaeo-Christian cathedral dedicated to St. Paul.^[4] In 307, emperorFlavius Severus was assassinated (or forced to commit suicide) here by Heraclius, by order of other emperorsMaximian andMaxentius. The barbaric invasions in Italy caused a further expansions of the marshes^{[clarification needed]}, and Tres Tabernae declined so that, in 592,Pope Gregory I united its diocese to that ofVelletri. Later in the high Middle Ages, Tres Tabernae was ravaged several times by theSaracens, until it was completely destroyed in 868.^{[citation needed]}

The position of the Tres Tabernae is also shown in theTabula Peutingeriana in a location south of Rome.^[5]

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Tres Tabernae".Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 254.
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Easton, Matthew George (1897). "Tres Tabernas".Easton's Bible Dictionary (New and revised ed.). T. Nelson and Sons.

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