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Latium
Still
undiscovered region of fascinating nature
and environment Latium is found in central
Italy, located on the Tyrrhenian Sea. It
borders on Tuscany, Marches, Umbria, Abruzzi,
Campania and Molise. In general, Lazio has
a mild climate thanks to the influence of
the Mediterranean Sea., with an extraordinary
variety of landscape: wide beaches, great
pinewoods, mountains like Terminillo (an
excellent ski resort), gentle hills and
expansive plains. A region rich in artistic
monuments that bring to mind the long and
extraordinary history of this region in
the most immediate fashion. At Tarquinia,
Cerveteri and Tuscania, necropolises and
museums bear evidence of ancient and mysterious
Etruscan
people (seventh to sixth centuries B.C.)
who ruled central Italy before the rise
of Rome. There are countless testimonies
of the Roman and later historical eras outside
Rome, in the other provinces of Latium and
in the local centres: Rieti
with Farfa
Abbey and the Sabina region, the medieval
Viterbo
(city of the Popes) and la Tuscia
area, Latina
near the sea with the best cliffs and beaches
in Latium, and Frosinone
with Abbey
of Montecassino and Sermoneta.
It is enough to think of the splendid and
grandiose Villa
Adriana in Tivoli (where the renaissance
Villa
d'Este can also be found), the seventeenth-century
Palazzo Barberini in Palestrina, and the
Cathedral in Anagni. The same grandiose
style of the Roman religion seems to be
projected and duplicated outside Rome: in
the abbeys of Montecassino, Casamari, and
Fossanova and in the monasteries of Subiaco,
places dear to Saint Benedict of Norcia.
Sea: Sabaudia e S.Felice Circeo, wellknown
as the best beaches and sea near Rome
Ostia Lido, the sea of Rome, is the nearest
beach, at only 20 km from the city by underground.
Gastronomy
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