Via Tiburtina Via Tiburtina Via Tiburtina is an ancient road in Italy leading east-northeast from Rome to Tivoli (Latin, Tibur) and then on to Pescara (Latin, Aternum). It was built by the Roman consul Marcus Valerius Maximus around 286 BC and later lengthened to the territories of the Marsi and the Aequi, in the Abruzzo, as Via Valeria. Its total length was approximately 200 km from Rome to Aternum (the modern Pescara). It exited Rome through the Aurelian Wall at the Porta Tiburtina, and through the Servian Wall at the Porta Esquilina. Historians assert that the Via Tiburtina must have come into
Salami Romanian, Bulgarian, and Turkish, the word is "salam"; in Hungarian, it is "szalámi"; while Polish, Czecho-Slovak, French, German, and Dutch have the same word as English. The name may be derived from the Latin words "salsiccia" and "salumen". The word originates from the word "sale" (salt) with a termination ("ame") that in Italian indicates a collective noun. Thus, it originally meant "all kinds of salted (meats)". The Italian tradition of cured meats includes several styles, and the word "salame" soon specifically meant only the most popular kind—a salted and spiced meat, ground and extruded into an elongated, thin casing (usually