According to legend Fondi was created by Hercules. Fondi has been a trading post for the Greeks, the Etruscans and the Volscians. It obtained the Roman citizenship “sine suffrage” in 338 BC. It was often reduced to poverty because of the barbarian invasions and assaults of the Saracens and then Read more…
Cori sits elegantly on a hill at the foot of the Lepini Mountains, looking towards the Pontine Plain and the Tyrrhenian sea. On sunny days you can see the Circeo and the islands of the Pontine archipelago. Its geographical characteristic has always led it to be divided in two parts Read more…
The town stretches on a volcanic origins floodplain strongly shaped by reclamation of the Pontine plain. In this area we had to find the ancient city of Vosca Ulubrae. Cisterna is located on the ancient Roman town of Tres Tabernae (three taverns also reported in the Cisterna emblem), a resting Read more…
Castelforte is located on a natural terrace of limestone rock that dominates the plain of the Garigliano River to the Tyrrhenian Sea. Castelforte is built on the ruins of the ancient city of Vescia destroyed by the Romans in 340 BC. The Roman baths Terme Vescinae were the site of Read more…
Originally this village was called Apiola, a name derived from bees and that after the conquest of Rome in the sixth century BC it was transformed into Campus Mellis, or “Field of Honey”. After years of neglect, in the seventh century, it became a possession of the monastery of Montecassino Read more…
The old town has a special circular shape, punctuated by nine towers and three doors like a wheel. They are placed around an ideal centre formed by the Tower of the old castle dating from the eleventh century. The history of Bassiano begins around the tenth century when a small Read more…
Aprilia is one of the ‘cities of foundation’ and was inaugurated in 1937 during the Fascist period following the reclamation of the Pontine. The name “Aprilia” is derived from the month of April and ‘Venus Aprilia’, Venus Fruitful. The initial town consisted of four large buildings: Municipal Offices, post office, Read more…
The Liri river has separated the peoples of the two regions and today marks their revival with an event that involves 15 municipalities and their entire populations. That event, ‘Scorrendoconilliri’ combines sport and culture in an embrace that makes the event one of the most exciting and engaging in which Read more…
Blessing the Animals is one of the most engaging religious events in the calendar and takes place on January 17, the day of the death of Saint Anthony, one of the most interesting figures of the Catholic, Orthodox and Lutheran Churches. Suddenly the churches are full of pets meowing, barking Read more…
It is early April, the week of the Sagra del Carciofo (artichoke festivals) in central Italy, particularly in Lazio. On the rich soil flatlands near Latina, the temperature is an early summer 30 degrees. We are driving to Sezze which can be seen from afar strutting the escarpment of the Read more…
