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Latina Province
Carole Roach's Italy

A province of the Lazio: 2,251 km2. 2017 population: 574,000.

Latina is the southernmost of the 5 provinces in the autonomous region of Lazio, stretching along the Mediterranean coast away from Rome, almost down to Naples. Historically it was formed to a great extent by the Via Appia; we are starting to move toward southern Italy, with Greek, Byzantine, and Norman influences becoming apparent.

Other than a pleasant day at the beach in Lido di Lavinio, I've never set foot in the province, but this site will be worth looking at just the same, thanks to my friend Carole Roach who knows the area well, took hundreds of often splendid photos, collected a great deal of information on the spot, and shared it all with me so that I in turn could share it with you. As of writing (November 2017) the site is nowhere near complete; it's barely started, but I'll be developing it over the next few months. For now:

	Formia, on the Via Appia. [ 1 page, 1 photo ]
	Gaeta, home to the Mausoleum of Lucius Munatius Plancus, one of the leading military figures under Augustus; as well as other Roman monuments, attractive churches, and more. [ 2 pages, 8 photos ]
	Minturno is represented by an article from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica, with a couple of additional notes and some of Carole's photos. [11/23/17: 1 page, 3 photos ]
	Sperlonga [ 6/5/02: 1 page, 1 photo ]
	Terracina [ 9/4/17: 2 pages, 1 photo ]
	Finally, I thought it might prove useful to include onsite these small articles from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica (annotated, of course): Cori • Norba • Setia (mod. Sezze) [ 3 pages ]

The extent of my acquaintance with Latina province is an (almost camera-less) day at the beach, and crossing its northern fringes on a couple of trains. The raw material for this site is thus the travels of an Australian pen-pal, Carole Roach, who lived there for several months and took well over a thousand photos of several towns in the province. For the others, you will find yourself using mostly offsite resources.

• For the towns just listed, then, good photos, information and links to further specific sites are slowly trickling onto their own pages, above.

• For the province as a whole, see the sites listed in the navigation bar below. They often have pages on individual towns, of course.

• Finally, in the course of roaming the Web, I've happened to find some pages — in addition to whatever towns are represented, usually quite well, on the general sites in the navigation bar at the bottom of this page — for specific places I've never been to; I've collected them here. This list is almost random, by no means comprehensive:

  
  Aprilia • Cisterna di Latina • Fondi • Latina • Sezze

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