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Welcome to the Latium...
Latium is not just Rome, Eternal City, the capital of the Christian world, the incomparable home of architectural and artistic masterpieces of the ancient world. This region, fascinating in terms of nature and environment, offers an extraordinary variety of landscape: wide beaches, great pinewoods, mountains like Terminillo, gentle hills and expansive plains. A region rich in artistic monuments that bring to mind the long and extraordinary history of this region. At Tarquinia, Cerveteri and Tuscania, necropolises and museums bear evidence of ancient and mysterious Etruscan people 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 centers: 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
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