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about the Region of Latium:
The regional capital of Latium is Rome. Everybody
knows it: the pull of the Eternal City is great and irresistible,
the capital of the Christian world, the seat of the Papacy,
the incomparable home of architectural and artistic masterpieces
of the ancient world. Is it possible to resist the fascination
of Rome? It may be difficult, but why not try to spend a few
days "exploring" Latium? In this way you would discover
a region of fascinating nature and environment, 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.
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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, Viterbo, Latina
and Frosinone. 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. Latium, therefore, is not just Rome.
And Rome is also Latium.
Latium - some Links to this region:
http://www.turislazio.it
http://www.turislazio.it/assessorato/
http://www.regione.lazio.it
http://www.vatican.va/
Travel and traffic routes, excursions:
http://www.cotralspa.it/
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