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Lazio

Population: 5.242.709
Surface (Kmq): 17227
Density (Inhabitants/Kmq.): 304
Main city: Roma (ROMA)
Other towns: Frosinone (FR); Latina (LT); Rieti (RI); Viterbo (VT).

Lazio is on the central western coast, facing the Tyrrhenian Sea, and home to the nation's capital, Rome. Traces of Etruscan civilisation are remarkable and can be found at Veio, Vulci, Tarquinia and Cerveteri, while evidence of the power base of the great Roman Empire remain everywhere. The region has long been the centre of a vibrant artistic community centred, since the Middle Ages, around the presence of the Roman Catholic Church. The Vatican City, seat of the papacy, is in the heart of Rome. The imposing complex of the Vatican Museums contains numberless outstanding masterpieces. The National Museum houses the most important archaeologic collections in the world, while the Capitoline Museum holds the oldest classic sculptures. Lazio also offers the tourist varied oeno-gastronomic itineraries which show the unique traditions and peculiarities of the Lazio cooking style.


Rome
The National Museum houses the most important archaeological collections in the world, while the Capitoline Museum holds the oldest classical sculptures. In the Museum of the Palazzo dei Conservatori there are many Greek and Roman sculptures, plus Etruscan vases and Paleochristian sarcophagi, to be admired. The Pinacoteca Capitolina houses remarkable pictorial works. In the Museum of Rome there are civic documents, from the Middle Ages to the present day. The Barracco Museum houses Assyrian, Babylonian, Egyptian and Etruscan relics and the Doria Pamphili Gallery houses a highly valuable private pictorial collection. The imposing complex of the Vatican Museums contains numerous outstanding masterpieces. In the centre of Rome, you can admire the Roman Forum, the imposing and world-renowned Colosseum, the Cathedral of St. Peter, the beautiful Piazza Navona, the Trevi fountain (above) and many other beauties.

Lazio
The region boasts beautiful seaside resorts such as Circeo (left), great pine woods, mountains like Terminillo (an excellent ski resort), gentle hills and expansive plains; pleasant lakes such as Bracciano, Martignano, Fibreno. There are countless testimonies of the Roman and later historical eras outside Rome, in the other provinces of Lazio and in the local centres of Rieti, Viterbo, Latina and Frosinone.

Veio, Vulci, Tarquinia and Cerveteri
In these archaeological sites you can find traces of Etruscan civilisation: necropolises and museums bear evidence of the ancient and mysterious Etruscan people (seventh to sixth centuries B.C.) who ruled central Italy before the rise of Rome.

Tivoli
Here you will find the splendid and grandiose Villa Adriana (right) and the renaissance Villa d'Este. Nearby, the seventeenth-century Palazzo Barberini in Palestrina, and the wonderful Cathedral in Anagni.

Monasteries
The same grandiose style of the Roman religion seems to be projected and duplicated outside Rome: in the abbeys of Montecassino, Casamari, and Fossanova and in the monasteries of Subiaco - places dear to Saint Benedict of Norcia.