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<p>In the heart of Italy and along the Thyrrhenian Sea, Lazio is the center of the Italian political life thanks to the presence of the government and Parliament; it is the Catholic world center since there is the Vatican, and a favorite destination of tourism for the innumerable monuments of the Roman civilization and, along the Northern Tuscan border, of the Etruscan civilization. Apart from the area of Rome, the rest of the territory is mostly plain and hills, with mountains in the area of Rieti such as Monte Terminillo (2213 m), and in the north an area of lower mountains of volcanic origins, in whose craters many beautiful lakes took origin. More than half of the population of the whole region live in or around Rome.</p>
<p>Tourism in Rome, and in Latium beyond Rome</p>
<p class="style_paragrafo">The regional capital of Latium is<strong> Rome</strong>." 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" <strong>Latium</strong>?</p>
<p class="style_paragrafo">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 <em>Terminillo</em> (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 <em>Tarquinia, Cerveteri</em> and <em>Tuscania</em>, 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.</p>
<p class="style_paragrafo">There are countless testimonies of the Roman and later historical eras outside Rome, in the other provinces of Latium and in the local centers: <strong><em>Rieti</em></strong>," <em>Viterbo, Latina</em> and <em>Frosinone</em>. It is enough to think of the splendid and grandiose <em>Villa Adriana</em> in <em>Tivoli</em> (where the renaissance <em>Villa d'Este</em> can also be found), the seventeenth-century <em>Palazzo Barberini</em> in <em>Palestrina</em>, and the Cathedral in <em>Anagni</em>. The same grandiose style of the Roman religion seems to be projected and duplicated outside Rome: in the abbeys of <em>Montecassino, Casamari</em>, and <em>Fossanova</em> and in the monasteries of <em>Subiaco</em>, places dear to <em>Saint Benedict of Norcia</em>. Latium, therefore, is not just Rome. And Rome is also Latium.<br /><span style="font-size: 8pt;">By<strong> ENIT Official Website</strong></span></p>
<p>Lazio<br />The Region of Lazio has a surface of 17203 Sq km and a total of 5.302.302 inhabitants. <br />The region of Lazio is located in Central Italy, on the Tyrrhenian side of the peninsula. Lying to the west on the Tyrrhenian Sea, this region borders on the North with Tuscany, Umbria and with the Marches for a short stretch. <br />On the East Lazio borders with Abruzzo and briefly with Molise and with Campania on the South.<br />The morphology of Lazio is very complex but it can be divided in four main sub-regions: the Tyrrhenian coast, the inland plains, the mountains of the Lazio Preapennines and the Apennines. The coast is mainly low and uniform, broken only by the spurs of Linaro, Mount Circeo (541 m.) and the Gaeta headland: the Ponzian Islands, which are part of Latium, are located on the Southern coast. <br />Though penalized by the extraordinary centralizing influence exerted by Rome on a vast numbers of visitors, the whole of Lazio represents a considerable tourism attraction, offering a range of alternative tours and a wide choice of historical and artistic sights and scenery.</p>
<p>Origin of the name:<br />Even before the birth of Rome, this territory was called Lazio, from the Latin Latium, lived by the people of Latin and situated in the zone of the low Tevere. After the period of the republican epoch the confinements were widened and with the arrangement of August in the Roman epoch, the Region included both Lazio that Campania.</p>
<p>Reliefs - Passes - Coasts - Islands: <br />The territory is predominantly mountainous and hilly, while lowlands are found in proximity to the coastal shores. In the oriental part we find a modest section of Appennino, that inserts the zones of border with Umbria, Marche and Abruzzi. <br />In this territory rise the lower part and isolated Sabini Mountains and the Reatinis Mountains in which rises the tallest mountain: Terminillo with his 2213 ms. Coasting along the border with the Abruzzi, finds the Simbruinis Mountains and the Ernicis Mountains characterized by their drought and scarce vegetation. Between the Ernicis and the mountains of the Preappennino, the valley of the Ciociaria is found, very fertile zone where they pass the rivers Liri and Sack. The northern zone of the Region, between the Tevere and the coast, it has occupied from a series of mountains that are: Tips Mountains, Volsinis Mountains and Sabatinis Mountains. To south of Tevere there is the group of Colli Albani. <br /> </p>
<p>All these mountainous groups are very old, of volcanic origin and almost never overcome the 1000 ms. In the most active craters there are fully grown of the lakes. These zones are very fertile and well cultivated, particularly to vineyards. In the southern part there are Lepinis Mountains, Ausonis Mountains and Auruncis Mountains, whose crests have corroded, arid and ploughed by strong landslides, because treat him of ancient mountains. Along the whole coast the level part of the territory of Lazio is found. To north, in the amplest lowland, we find Maremma laziale that then continuous with Tuscany; in the central zone there is the Roman Country where Tevere passes; finally to south the sour Pontino, called still also Swamps Pontine for some swampy zones after the 1930 and 1940 reclamation. A long time ago these level zones were of the swamps that then in the time they were reclaim and that today they are cultivated and divided in farms. The coast is very regular, low and sandy. There are some prominences as Head Linaro, Delta of the Tevere, Head Circeo and Promontory of Anzio and Gaeta where the homonym is found the port. In front of the port of Gaeta, we find the archipelago Pontino constituted from six islets all of volcanic origin, even if of the volcanos few they remember sight the incisive action of the waves of the sea. The principal one is that of Ponza.</p>
<p>Landscape:<br />Looking at the whole territory, seems that this Region is composed by different landscapes: a zone northerner with irte and desolate mountains that remember those marchigianes, others rich in vegetation with green woods and expanses of ulivi that recall to the mind Umbria. From the northern zone a level zone is mixed with the Tuscan Maremma and in that southern where we find the end of the level zones. Quìs are lifted on the coast of the rocks that they precede those of Campania.</p>
<p>Agriculture - Stock-farm - Fishing:<br />Cereals are cultivated, above all wheat and oat in the level zones of Viterbo, Rome and Latin. The crops of vegetables and fruit trees are very developed. In the southern zone are cultivated the citrus fruit. In the hilly territories life trees and ulivi are cultivated. For the production of table wine and oil Lazio occupies one of the first places in Italy. The most prestigious zones for the production of wine are the Colli Abani, Formia, Montefiascone and Terracina. Sugar beets and tobacco are also produced in notable quantity. A lot of zones turned to pasture, have been reclaim for being destined to the agriculture. Although the breedings decrease continually, the number of ovini always stays elevated and it puts the region to the second place, only after Sardinia. Detail is the breeding of the buffalos, that the refined person allows production of mozzarella. Very important it is the fishing practiced in the Tyrrhenian Sea and Mediterranean. The motopeschereccis make port in the harbors in Civitavecchia, Gaeta and Fiumicino.</p>
<p>Industry - Tourism:</p>
<p> <br /> Lazio is not a Region very industrialized. Principal activities are those of the mechanics, to feed and of the tobacco developed in the presses of Rome. New industrial roads are being opened, between which the pharmaceutical industry, chemistry, graphics, cinema and of the clothes. Main point is the nuclear center in the press of Frascati. The tourism is one of the principal economic resources of Lazio; the alone city of Rome calls numerous tourists, Italians and foreigners back. Besides the famous artistic and cultural affairs, the City of Vatican also recalls many religious. The bathing stations have also aspired and the archaeological places as Cerveteri and Tarquinia. </p>
<p>Position and Frontier:<br />The territory that understands Lazio is extended from the Appennineses and goes down to the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea. This zone is included by the rivers Fiora to north and Garigliano to south. The Region confines to north with Tuscany, Umbria and a brief line of Brands; to east with Abruzzi, Molise and Campania, to south and to west, with Tyrrhenian Sea.</p>
<p>Rivers - lakes:<br />In the Tyrrhenian Sea flow Tevere and others small rivers, between which Marta that goes out of the Lake of Bolsena and Fiora. In the southern zone of the Region are found Sacco and Liri. Between the lakes, numerous in Lazio, we remember that of Bolsena in Volsinis Mountains; the Lake of Vico in the Cimini Mountains; the Lake of Bracciano, in the Sabatinis Mountains; the Lake of Albano and Nemi in the Necks Albani.</p>
<p>Climate:<br />The coastal part has profited from the sea that mitigates the winters and refreshes the summers. In the departs inside of the Region the winter is rigid and the summer is warm. In the coastal shore and in the lowlands the rains are scarce, while on the mountains they are very abundant especially in the winter and spring periods.</p>
<p>Population:<br />The density of population in the Lazio is the third of Italy, preceded only from Lombardy and from Campania. The inhabitants are distributed in very irregular way. Over half the population occupies the alone city of Rome and besides seen the influx of immigrates, the population has almost reached the three thousand. Contrarily the mountainous and hilly zones are a little populated. Other very big urban centers there are not in the territory of Lazio. Latin it grazes the 100 thousand inhabitants and the other chief towns are around 50 thousand, while the other centers are being under everybody 50 thousand. Generally in Lazio it is used to live all in assembled places. The only that live in isolated way are the farmers that live in the reclaimed zones.</p>
<p>Communication:<br />From Rome all the roads and the principal railway lines depart. The run of the primary roads is traced from the ancient Roman roads: Flaminia arrives to Rimini, Cassia reaches Florence, Aurelia climbs up to Florence, Appia with Brindisi, Salaria connects Rome to Ascoli Piceno and Triburtina arrives up to Pescara. In Rome there are two airports: that of Ciampino and that of Fiumicino. </p>
<p>Ancient Latium was inhabited by some native populations called Latini, Aernici, Aequi, Aurunci and Volsci. The legend of the origins of Rome, which cannot be established as founded or not, as told in many poems of ancient Rome and in Virgil's Aeneid, tells of a group of refugees from the city of Troy, destroyed by the Greeks around the 10th century BC, who, led by Aeneas, reached the coast of Lazio, where their leader married the daughter of the local king. <br /> History begins in the 8th century BC with the foundation of the city of Rome, which was at first a monarchy until under the seventh king there was a war with the Etruscans and a republic ruled by two consuls and a senate was established. In the centuries the Romans, a people of soldiers, law-makers and rulers, gradually conquered the whole of Italy, then started their expansion in the Mediterranean and towards north in central Europe as far as the British Isles. The republic gave way to an Empire in the first century BC, and the first - and one of the greatest - Emperors, Augustus, reorganized the Empire in regions, so that Lazio and Campania were the Prima Regio.</p>
<p>After the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD, in the war against the Goths (535-553) the Eastern, or Byzantine, Roman Empire reclaimed Lazio for a period, then had to abandon the region to defend the Adriatic possessions against the Lombards. It was in that period that the only authority left in Lazio was the bishop of Rome, who strengthened the political power of the church in the area. After centuries of fighting against local lords, the State of the Church gained finally a total supremacy on Lazio and surrounding territories (Umbria and Marche).</p>
<p>In the 19th century, when a strong movement for unity swept the Italian nation, patriots in the many Italian states looked at Rome as their future capital. In 1860 the Second War of Independence united many territories of the former State of the Church to the newborn Italian Kingdom, but Rome was taken only 1n 1870, after the Third War of Independence.</p>
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