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Velletri
Velletri (; ; ) is an Italian comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, approximately 40 km to the southeast of the city centre, located in the Alban Hills, in the region of Lazio, central Italy. Neighbouring communes are Rocca di Papa, Lariano, Cisterna di Latina, Artena, Aprilia, Nemi, Genzano di Roma, and Lanuvio. Its motto is: ('Liberty of pope and empire is given to me').
Palestrina
Palestrina (ancient Praeneste; , Praínestos) is a modern Italian city and comune (municipality) with a population of about 22,000, in Lazio, about east of Rome. It is connected to the latter by the Via Prenestina. It is built upon the ruins of the ancient city of Praeneste.
Nettuno
Nettuno is a town and comune of the Metropolitan City of Rome in the Lazio region of central Italy, south of Rome. A resort city and agricultural center on the Tyrrhenian Sea, it has a population of approximately 50,000. The medieval burg|thumb
Montefiascone
thumb|Grave of Bishop Fugger featured in Est! Est! Est! legend. Montefiascone is a town and comune of the province of Viterbo, in Lazio, central Italy. It stands on a hill on the southeast side of Lake Bolsena, about north of Rome.
Civita Castellana
Italian comune
Santa Marinella
Italian comune
Calcata
Calcata (locally ) is a comune and town in the Province of Viterbo in the Italian region Lazio, located north of Rome by car, overlooking the valley of river.
Artena
Artena is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Italy. It is situated in the northwest of Monti Lepini, in the upper valley of the Sacco River. It is approximately southeast by rail, and direct from Rome.
Rignano Flaminio
Italian comune
Collevecchio
Collevecchio () is a (municipality) in the province of Rieti in the Italian region of Latium.
Capena
Capena (until 1933 called Leprignano) is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio region (central Italy). The town has borrowed its modern name from a pre-Roman and Roman settlement that was to its north.
Corchiano
Corchiano is a town and comune in the province of Viterbo, Lazio, central Italy. It was an ancient settlement of the Faliscans and, in the Renaissance and later, a fief of the Farnese family.
Hadrian's Villa
archaeological complex in Tivoli, Italy
Ostia
ancient Roman city and colony
Lake Bracciano
a lake of volcanic origin in the Italian region of Lazio, 32 km northwest of Rome. It is the second largest lake in the region and one of the major lakes of Italy.
Tusculum
Tusculum was an ancient Roman city in the Alban Hills, in the Latium region of Italy. Tusculum was most famous in Roman times for the many great and luxurious patrician country villas sited close to the city, yet a comfortable distance from Rome, notably the villas of Cicero and Lucullus.
Vulci
Vulci or Volci (Etruscan: Velch or Velx, depending on the romanization used) was a rich Etruscan city in what is now northern Lazio, central Italy.
Necropolis of Monterozzi
ancient necropolis in Tarquinia, Italy
Falerii Novi
thumb|250px|The apses of the church of Santa Maria di Falleri.
Lavinium
thumb|300px|Gate into the interior of the settlement of the frazione of Pratica di Mare, a medieval walled village at the site of the center of ancient Lavinium. The structures in the photograph vary in date. On the left is the Castello Borghese, possibly the site of the Roman arx or citadel. The archaeological excavations are in a field off to the left of the photograph. The comune of Pomezia and the museum are directly behind the photographer.
Monte Cavo
mountain in Italy
Portus
Portus was a large artificial harbour complex of Ancient Rome located at the mouth of the Tiber on the Tyrrhenian Sea. It was established by Claudius and enlarged by Trajan to supplement the nearby port of Ostia.. At its maximum extent the complex covered an area of about 350 hectares and included many horrea and an imperial palace.
Mount Circeo
mountain in Italy
Ostia Synagogue
synagogue
Pyrgi
thumb|250px|Pyrgi sanctuary
Gabii
thumb|Ancient Latium. Gabii is directly east of Roma, south of Collatia. thumb|Altar of the Twelve Gods from Gabii, dated to 1st century AD (Louvre, [[Paris).]]
François Tomb
important painted Etruscan tomb from the Ponte Rotto Necropolis in the Etruscan city of Vulci that was discovered in 1857
Le Ferriere
human settlement in Latina, Province of Latina, Lazio, Italy
Cures
ancient Sabine town between the left bank of the Tiber and the Via Salaria, about 26 miles (42 km) from Rome
Fregellae
Fregellae was an ancient town of Latium adiectum, situated on the Via Latina between Aquinum (modern Aquino) and Frusino (now Frosinone), in central Italy, near the left branch of the Liris.
Castro, Lazio
ancient city in central Italy
Antium
Antium was an ancient coastal town in Latium, south of Rome. An oppidum was founded by people of Latial culture (11th century BC or the beginning of the 1st millennium BC), which then became the main stronghold of the Volsci until it was conquered by the Romans. The territory of Roman Antium corresponds almost entirely to modern Anzio and Nettuno.
Norba
Norba, an ancient town of Latium (Adjectum), Italy. It is situated 1 mile northwest of the modern town of Norma, on the western edge of the Volscian Mountains or Monti Lepini. The town is perched above a precipitous cliff with a splendid view over the Pomptine Marshes below; the highest point stands to ca. 460 meters (over 1500 feet) above sea level. thumb|Map of Norba
Gravisca
Gravisca (Cravsca in Etruscan and Graviscae Latin) was the port of the Etruscan city of Tarquinii, situated 8 km west of the city center.
Portonaccio
The sanctuary of Minerva at Portonaccio is an archaeological site on the western side of the plateau on which the ancient Etruscan city of Veii, north of Rome, Italy, was located. The site takes its name from the locality within the village of Isola Farnese, part of Municipio XX, city of Rome.
Forum Novum
archaeological site in Torri in Sabina, Italy
Norchia
Norchia is an ancient Etruscan city with an adjacent necropolis, near Vetralla in Italy. The site is along the Via Clodia, and is not far from the more well known Etruscan town of Tarquinia.
Isola Sacra
island in Italy
Foglia
human settlement in Magliano Sabina
Satricum
Satricum (located near the modern hamlet of Le Ferriere), was an ancient town of Latium vetus, situated on the right bank of the Astura River approximately southeast of Rome. It lay in a low-lying region south of the Alban Hills, at the northwestern edge of the Pontine Marshes, and was directly accessible from Rome by a road running roughly parallel to the Via Appia.
Forum Appii
archaeological site in Latina, Italy
Aquae Cutiliae
mineral spring in Italy
Lucus Feroniae
archaeological site in Capena, Italy
Trebula Mutuesca
archaeological site in Monteleone Sabino, Italy
Interamna Lirenas
Italian archaeological site