Roman Training

[Furianus]

I am doing a project concerning roman training for the army. I am looking for the typical location for legionnaire training near ancient rome. Did they have training camps or what?

[Bryaxis Hecatee]

well the youth and older men usually trained outside the pomerium of Rome on the campus martius where they did gymnastics, exercises, learned to ride a horse ( if they hadn't at their family's farm or villa ), and so on. Then they would also learn a lot in their late teens when they went to the army for the first time. Their fathers might also give them some informations on fighting.

 

Later as the city of Rome grew and the methods for recruiting roman soldiers changed the training was mainly done in the legion alone.