Roman sites in Lazio

Civitavecchia (, ; , and later, ) is a city and major sea port on the Tyrrhenian Sea west-northwest of Rome, Lazio, Italy. Administratively, it is a (municipality) of the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital. Civitavecchia's harbour is formed by two piers and a breakwater on which stands a lighthouse.

Italian comune

Rieti (; , Sabino: ) is a town and comune in Lazio, central Italy, with a population of 47,700. It is the administrative seat of the province of Rieti and see of the diocese of Rieti, as well as the modern capital of the Sabina region.

thumb|Megalithic walls thumb|Roman mausoleum of Lucius Munatius Plancus thumb|Roman mausoleum of Lucius Sempronius Atratinus Gaeta (; ; Southern Laziale: Gaieta) is a seaside resort in the province of Latina in Lazio, Italy. Set on a promontory stretching towards the Gulf of Gaeta, it is south of Rome and north of Naples.

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.

Terracina is an Italian city and comune of the province of Latina, located on the coast southeast of Rome on the Via Appia ( by rail). The site has been continuously occupied since antiquity.

Anagni () is an ancient town and comune in the province of Frosinone, Lazio, in the hills east-southeast of Rome. It is a historical and artistic centre of the Latin Valley.

Ancient Roman center of the city, a landmark of Rome, Italy

comune of Lazio, Italy

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

Mentana is a town and comune, former bishopric and present Latin Catholic titular see in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, central Italy. It is located north-east of Rome and has a population of about 23,000.

Italian comune

Sutri (Latin Sutrium) is an Ancient town, modern comune and former bishopric (now a Latin titular see) in the province of Viterbo, about from Rome and about south of Viterbo. It is picturesquely situated on a narrow tuff hill, surrounded by ravines, a narrow neck on the west alone connecting it with the surrounding country. It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia ("The most beautiful villages of Italy").

comune in Lazio, Italy

Minturno is a city and comune in southern Lazio, Italy, situated on the north west bank of the Garigliano (known in antiquity as the Liris).

ancient Roman city and colony

ancient city of Latium in central Italy

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.

Artificial mountain made from broken Roman pottery

Fidenae () was an ancient town of Latium vetus, situated about 8 km north of Rome on the Via Salaria. Its inhabitants were known as Fidenates. As the Tiber was the border between Etruria and Latium, the left-bank settlement of Fidenae represented an extension of Etruscan presence into Latium, or a Latin border town. The site of the arx of the ancient town was probably on the hill on which lies the contemporary Villa Spada, though no traces of early buildings or defences are to be seen; pre-Roman tombs are in the cliffs to the north. The later village lay at the foot of the hill on the eas

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.

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.

building in Rome, Italy

building in Prima Porta, Italy

thumb|240px|Fresco-style [[icons in the church of Madonna di Ceri (12th century)]] Ceri () is a hamlet (frazione) of the comune of Cerveteri, in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio (central Italy). It occupies a fortified plateau of tuff at a short distance from the city of Cerveteri. ==History== Inhabited before the 7th century BC, the town's native population changed several times, from Etruscans to Romans. Numerous tombs from the Etruscan and Roman periods can be found in the area.

thumb|Laurentum on a map of Old Latium

thumb|300px|Via Collatina, from Rome to Collatia Collatia was an ancient town of central Italy, c. 15 km northeast of Rome by the Via Collatina.

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).]]

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Cretone is a frazione of the comune of Palombara Sabina, in the Province of Rome, Italy.

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.

building in Nettuno, Italy

Suio is a frazione (rural borough) of Castelforte, a municipality in southern Latium, central Italy.

ancient city in central Italy

building in Rome, Italy

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.

thumb|mosaic of actors in tragic scene from Lorium (Altes Museum Berlin) thumb|300px|Villa delle Colonnacce thumb|Villa delle Colonnacce thumb|Cistern of Villa delle Colonnacce, 2nd-3rd c. AD thumb|Fresco, villa delle Colonnacce (Rome, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme)

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

Labici or Labicum or Lavicum ( or ) was an ancient city of Latium, in what is now central Italy, lying in the territory of the modern Monte Compatri, about 20 km SE from Rome, on the northern slopes of the Alban Hills. Exact location of the original city is however disputed.

Roman sanctuary in Palestrina

Gravisca (Cravsca in Etruscan and Graviscae Latin) was the port of the Etruscan city of Tarquinii, situated 8 km west of the city center.

archaeological site

island in Italy

frazione of Rome, Italy

mineral spring in Italy

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.

archaeological site in Capena, Italy

Roman villa in Rome, Italy

Italian archaeological site

thumb|300px|View of San Felice Circeo from Mount Circeo

archaeological site in Monteleone Sabino, Italy

thermal springs in Tivoli, Italy

Settecamini is the 6th of Rome, identified by the initials Z. VI.. Settecamini is also the name of the urban zone 5L, within the Municipio V of Rome.