Baccanae
Baccanae or AD BACCANAS, a station on the Via Cassia, still called Baccano. It is placed by the Itineraries 21 M. P. from Rome, and 12 from Sutrium (Itin. Ant. p. 286; Tab. Peut.), and must, therefore, have been about a mile farther on the road than the modern Baccano; the latter consists only of an inn and a few houses, and the ancient mutatio
was probably little more. It stands in a basin-shaped hollow, evidently the crater of an extinct volcano, and which must have formed a small lake until artificially drained. (Nibby, Dintorni di Roma, vol. i. p. 281; Dennis's Etruria, vol. i. p. 78.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.