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| Capital | Rome | |
| Area | 17 232 | |
| Population | 5 867 000 (2019) | |
Lazio (Italian: Lazio, elp. / 'Lacjo /; Latin: Latium) is a region of central Italy.
It already had a similar name in antiquity; in fact the word "Latin" meant "inhabitant of Lazio" and the Latin language was the language of the inhabitants of Lazio (although originally they lived only in a small part of the region).
Today Lazio is one of the most important regions of Italy, as it is the capital of the country. Rome.
Cities
In Lazio there is only one large city, with more than 1 million inhabitants:
- Rome (Italian Rome), capital of Lazio and all of Italy, and a very important destination for tourists (and pilgrims).
Only two cities (but only one commune) outside Rome have a little more than 100 thousand inhabitants. They are
Among the smaller cities are noteworthy:
- Albano (rather Albano Laziale, because in Italy there are other communities called "Albano")
- Anzio
- Cassino
- Civitavecchia
- Weather in Fiumicino
- Weather in Frascati
- Frosinone
- Gaeta
- Neptune
- Sezze
- Tarquinia
- Terracina
- Tivoli
- Velletri
- Viterbo
Other destinations
- Acquapendente
- Amateur
- Casamari (abbey)
- Cerveteri
- Farfa (abbey)
- Weather in Fossanova (abbey)
- Greccio
- Catino field
- Lake Albano
- Lake Bolsena
- Lake Bracciano
- Lake Nemi
- Mount Circeo
- Monte Terminillo
- Ponza (island)
- Vilao Hadriana
Understand
Lazio is in the southwestern part of central Italy, from the Tyrrhenian Sea to the Apennines.
It contains mainly hills and small plains, but in the eastern part there are quite high mountains, with peaks between 2000 and 2500m (the highest peak is Mount Gorzano, 2458m).
Several mountains and hills are limestone and some contain visitable caves. Also important are hills and low mountains of volcanic origin, often containing lakes, and large (Bolsena, Vico, Bracciano) and small (Martignano, Albano, Nemi).
The southeastern Lazio is a plain vast ca. 1000km², anciently marching. Next to the coast, this plain contains several coastal lakes.
The island of Ponza (7km²) and a number of adjacent islets belong administratively to Lazio.
History
The ancient history of Lazio is linked mainly to two peoples:
- Etruscans , who left important traces of their civilization in the northeastern part of Lazio;
- Italics , a group of related Indo-European tribes that crossed the Alps c. in the 12th century B.C. and settled in the eastern and southern part of the Italian peninsula.
Among the Italics, the small people of are very important Latinos, which c. in 8th century B.C. founded Romon. During the following centuries, Rome (the ancient state whose capital was Rome) subjugated all the Latins, conquered all of Lazio, before 200 BC. ruled almost all of present-day Italy and eventually established a vast empire around the Mediterranean.
Rome and several places in Lazio contain numerous remnants of Rome.
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Climate
Enter
Enire avie
There are two commercial airports in Lazio, both next to Rome:
- airport Leonardo da Vinci apud Weather in Fiumicino (FCO), Rome's main airport, to the southwest
- airport G.B. Pastine apud Ciampino, southeast
There are frequent buses to / from both airports. To / from Fiumicino airport there are also frequent trains.
Get on the train
Two high-speed railways connect Rome
- to the north with Florence-Bologna (and further north with Milan-Turin, Verona, Venice)
- to the south with Naples-Salerno
Other major railways connect Rome
- to the northwest with Pisa-Genoa
- northeast with Perugia / Ancona
- to the east with Pescara
- southeast with Apulia by Benevento
Get on board
Civitavecchia is a fairly important port. Other, smaller ports are Fiumicino, Ostia, Anzio, Terracina and Formia.
There are ferries connecting Civitavecchia with Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily.
Enter the bus
Enter on foot
To move
Public transport
Trains
Buses
Ships
Naval connections within Lazio are to the island Ponza and to its archipelago.
