History Latium

frosinone

Town volsca with the name of Frusino, is in the heart of the Ciociaria on the top of a hilly relief. Seriously damaged during the last war, she preserves a gathered historical core about to the cathedral, plus times rebuilt. Between the monuments we can see S. Maria Assunta cathedral and the remains of a Roman amphitheatre.

latina

To the center of the Pontine Field the Lictorian Fascist was well grounded in 1932, when in those zones one was proceeding to the reclamation; she then became Latin after 1945. Planned from the architect Golden Oriole Frezzotti according to the criteria some Twenty-year Period, has regular one octagonal structure, with two squares central which one appear public principal buildings at; while he places some Square he lodges statues in tufa and the central fountain, emblem of the reclaimed marsh.

rieti

The original core was rising to the right some Veil, a pò far from the river, what was reached by the medieval building expansion; in the sec. XIII the town was contained within long and impressive walls, preserved well, that contained the built-up area for several centuries. The town is rich of testimonies of the medieval period and, between the ancient mores, the cathedral.

rome

From Romulus's mythical foundation in the 753 a.C. The history crossed Rome by leaving testimonies in every epoch. Still today, digging, discoveries go on. Some kingdom of Italy in 1870 became capital. In the royal period true and its town planning organization has beginning: The town surrounds of walls, the so-called walls serviane, a public hole, constitutes, the Hole Roman, builds on the Capitol, the temple of Maximum Excellent Jupiter and in the Cattle Hole, the temple of the Virile Luck. Raising of splendid templi, the building of aqueducts and big streets, thermal bath and amphitheatres mark the way of the first Republic that saw Rome ruling of the Mediterranean and East queen. The time of the empire with the Macaw Pacis, the Pantheon, the Gold Domus, the Colosseum, the emperors' up to Trajan's magnificent hole with the column coclide, big holes, the basilica Ulpia, the Markets traianei arrives. In the Middle Ages with him affirming him of the papal power, Rome becomes the central pole of the Christian world. Numerous and splendid basilicas are witnesses. Renaissance and Baroque sign the gold period some arts, protected and supported by the different pontiffs. Must to Popes as Sisto IV and Giulio II Some Oak, Paolo III Farnese, Urban VIII Barberini, Innocenzo X Pamphilj if larger artists of the '400', 'the' 500 and the '600 worked in Rome realizing those masterpieces of architecture, sculpture and paints what gave back the town only one to the world. Some kingdom of Italy in 1870 became capital.

viterbo

Etruscan ancient center of high Latium placed along the Cassia street. Started calling him castrum Viterbi on the finish of the sec. VIII. Papal residence up to sec. XIV and then town of the Church for excellence, really knew a period of big brightness during the Middle Ages. The old city centre kept almost intact the medieval atmospheres; medieval is the street St. Lawrence with Bergognone tower and the church of the Jesus. Some sec. XII is the cathedral, period which S. Maria church also goes up again some Truth and S. Maria Nuova to; remarkable is the Popes' thirteenth-century palace and S. Francesco church (sec. XIII.) In the neighbourhood one finds S. Maria sanctuary some Oak, some beautiful and refined architectures of the Renaissance one inhabitant of Latium.