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Extract from the Palestrina Travel Guides:
PALESTRINA
was built on the site of the ancient Praeneste, originally an Etruscan settlement and later a favoured resort for patrician Romans. "Cool Praeneste", as Horace called it, was the site of an enormous Roman Temple of Fortune, whose foundations more or less determine the extent of the modern town centre, which steps up the hillside in a series of terraces constructed on the different levels of the once vast edifice - the ruins of which you can see at every turn.
Buses run to Palestrina about every 45 minutes from Rome and take about 45 minutes, dropping you on Via degli Arcioni, from where you have to wa...
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