Between sea and Roman villas ruins
This Area, south of the capital, is the smallest one, since it includes only 4 towns. According to the legend, here disembarked Aeneas, the mythical progenitor of Rome.
The first town is Pomezia, which was raised after the drainage of the Pontine marshes and is one of the industrial centres of the province. Going to Castel Decima you find a VII-VII century B.C. necropolis, whose funerary treasures are in Ostia Antica and in the Thermae Museum in Rome. Near Pratica di Mare 13 altars of the middle of the VI century were found in the past.
Turistically more important are the other three towns, beginning with Ardea,
renowned for the excavations that have discovered a built-up area of the late Bronze Age. Remarkable is the Museum dedicated to Giacomo Manzł.
The sea laps Anzio and Nettuno. Hometown of Caligola and Nero, in Anzio are the ruins of the Imperial Palace that at the end of the last century gave back to the world the Fanciulla d'Anzio, now kept in the Museum of the Thermae in Rome; in front of the cove of the ancient port there is Nero Grotto, which once served as storehouses. Known also for the landing of the allies, in the town are some war cemeteries. In summer, Anzio is connected with a service of catamarans to the isles of the Pontin Archipelago and administers, with WWF
, the Regional nature Reserve of Tor Caldara, a region known for the natural phenomenon of the gaseous manifestations and for the sulphur spring. In Nettuno, rounded by the Forte of the Borgia and the medieval village, you can visit an American military cemetery. The famous Astura Tower is worth a walk, next to which, under the surface of the water, appear the ruins of fishpond of Roman times.
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