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Latium
Frosinone, Latina, Rieti, Rome, Viterbo
 The Latins founded
a group of small settlements that united against the Etruscans and
Samnites, and which came under Roman dominance in 338 BC. Rome granted
all Latins Roman citizenship after the Social War in 90 BC
Latium has great importance for history, art, architecture,
archaeology, religion, and culture in general. The immense patrimony of
the city of Rome forms only a part of the treasures spread over the
hundreds of towns, villages, abbeys, churches, monuments, and other
sites of the region.
Latium is drained by the Tiber in the north and Garigliano in the
south, it includes three areas geographical. In the east, Apennin
abruzzo (mounts Sabins, exceeding all 2 000 m) dominates the valleys of
the Sabine which is the area of the north, and of Ciociaria which is
that of the south. In the center, a zone of hills lengthens north in
the south in the form of volcanic reliefs (mounts Albain, Cimini,
Volsini), rising above the lakes (Bracciano, Bolsena), or the solid
masses limestones (Lepini mount). In the west, the valley of the Tiber
and the Roman countryside announce the plain of the littoral,
sandy and marshy (partly drained in the Pontins marshes)
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Abruzzo
Basilicata
Calabria
Campania
Emilia-Romagna
Friuli-Venezia
Giulia
Latium
Liguria
Lombardy
Marche
Molise
Umbria
Piedmont
Apulia
Sardinia
Sicily
Tuscany
Trentino-South
Tyrol
Aosta Valley
Veneto
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