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Latina

Country
Italy
State
Latina
City
Latina
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By Air

In the municipal area is the military airport named after Captain Henry Comans and home to the 70 º Stormo of the Italian Air Force . Recently, there was discussion of the possible transformation of the military in civilian airport " low cost ", even to relieve the air traffic of the airport of Ciampino.However, for the construction of an airport low cost regional government has identified the first Frosinone, and then finally the military airport in Viterbo.

By Train

The district is crossed by the railway line Rome-Formia, part of the historical Rome - Naples, which has a station in the resort Latina Scalo.From the beginning of 2005 it also plans to build light rail road crossing the railway station connecting the city to the sea, the project presented several times on two occasions when he was about to start has always been interrupted by political parties opposed local and regional that they consider unnecessary costly and outdated. They are being studied the possibility of navigable stretch of beach in the resort and the consequent realization Foceverde port that will enable the development of tourism for the city of Latina.

By Road

The city is connected to Rome by the SS 148 Pontina, known as the second most dangerous road of Italy, and this because of the inadequacy of the road infrastructure compared to the volume of traffic that supports and non-compliance with speed limits.Since the beginning of 2010 they started work on the enlargement and the safety of the Pontine on a path of 20 km which should be finished by the end of the year.The municipal area is crossed by the SS 7 Appia and the SS 156 dei Monti Lepine.The city of Latina is quickly linked by provincial and municipal roads to neighboring towns of Nettuno, Aprilia, Cisterna di Latina, Sabaudia, Pontefract, Sezze, Cori, Sermoneta.The report Euromobility 2009 showed that Latin America is the city with the highest index of motorization in Italy, with 72.55 vehicles per 100 inhabitants.

Key places to visit
Piazza del Popolo, Circeo National Park, Fogliano Lake, Combatants National Opera, Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Latin America


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Places to Visit

Piazza del Popolo

is a large urban square in Rome.The name in modern Italian literally means "People's Square", but historically it derives from the poplars (populus in Latin, pioppo in Italian) after which the church of Santa Maria del Popolo, in the northeast corner of the piazza, takes its name.The piazza lies inside the northern gate in the Aurelian Walls, once the Porta Flaminia of ancient Rome, and now called the Porta del Popolo. This was the starting point of the Via Flaminia, the road to Ariminum (modern day Rimini) and the most important route to the north. At the same time, before the age of railroads, it was the traveller's first view of Rome upon arrival. For centuries, the Piazza del Popolo was a place for public executions, the last of which took place in 1826.

Circeo National Park

is a protected area established in 1934.Located along the coast of the Tyrrhenian southern Lazio, extends along the stretch of coast between Anzio and Terracina, covering an area of 5,616 has.It was established in 1934 by the then Forestry Administration at the behest of Benito Mussolini, at the suggestion of Sen.Raffaele Bastianelli, in order to protect the last remnants of the Pontine Marshes, which in those years were reclaimed.Prampolini Christmas, the Senator and the engineer who planned the reclamation of the Pontine Marshes, was in fact awarded by Victor Emmanuel III to the provision of the title of Count of Circeo in 194.It is the only National Park Italian and European level to extend completely flat and in a marine environment. The Circeo National Park is also a "reserve of the biosphere 'of' truth and was nominated for the title of "World Heritage".

Fogliano Lake

is located in the Province of Latina, in Agro pontine.Among the coastal lakes of the region Pontine (Fogliano, Caprolace, Monks, Paola ) Fogliano Lake is the largest, about 395 ha, with an extension towards the sea about 5 km, a perimeter of about 11 km and a width of about 1.5 km.Its maximum depth is of the order of 2 / 3 m.Strait from the coastal strip collects the waters of the canal Chickling.The Caetani family enriches the area of new buildings is the 1742 construction of the hunting lodge, was born to host the Count of Albany and the Cardinal of York, grandsons of James II Stuart, during their hunts. In 1877, the villa is built and the so-called "English House".Subsequent alterations have led to a complete change in the architecture of the manor house and hunting lodge, which now constitute a single body, encompassing the remains of the ancient church of S. Andrew, later replaced by a neo-Gothic church located near the villa.

Combatants National Opera

Opera National Fighters (ONC) was a charity founded during the First World War, the work of Francesco Saverio Nitti and Alberto Beneduce.The institution, established by Decree No 1970 of 10 December 1917, who also founded the National Opera of War Invalids, flanked by the latter in the work of rehabilitation of veterans, in particular as regards the provision of mortgages and insurance on terms favorable to ex-combatants of the largest war.The initial activity was limited, and the body passed through two reform of its statutes in 1923 and in September 1926.This last reform, made ​​when the Fascist Party had consolidated power, gave new impetus to its activities, directing them towards the development of agriculture, through the appointment of Angelo Maranesi the direction of the institution, by the same Mussolini in March same year.

Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Latin America

is a picture gallery Italian public.It was established in 1937 as the Art Gallery of Littoria (old name of Latin ) and its original nucleus was formed by the works donated by artists invited to the Venice Biennale and the XX Quadrennial II.During the war, after the armistice of 'September 8, 1943, the collection was largely dispersed. In December 1994, with the remaining works and those retrieved from the Carabinieri, the Gallery was reopened to the public in the halls of the local Palace of Culture.In 1996 he started a process of acquisition has expanded the initial chronological boundary, based on the realities of contemporary art and enriching the collection of over 400 works.In 1999 she was made a specific section of contemporary art , collecting works of art created from 1955 to date.

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