Pomezia is a municipality in the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, Lazio, central Italy. In 2009 it had a population of about 60,000.
Panorama of Pomezia
The Pontine Marshes is an approximately quadrangular area of former marshland in the Lazio Region of central Italy, extending along the coast southeast of Rome about 45 km from just east of Anzio to T
Pomezia
…population of about 60,000. The town was built entirely new near the location of ancient Lavinium on land resulting from the final reclamation of the Pontine Marshes under Benito Mussolini, being inaugurated on 29 October 1939. Its new population was extracted from the poor peasants of Romagna, Veneto and Friuli…
Hunting in the Pontine Marshes, oil on canvas by Horace Vernet, 1833
Lake Fogliano, a coastal lagoon in the Pontine Plain
Terracina today, looking northward at the promontory: the former marsh to the right of it stretches over the horizon. In the lower right corner, the Volscian Mountains descend to the edge of the narrow strip on which Terracina is situated.
National Park of Circeo, on the coast of the Pontine Fields: the view is an aerial photograph. Visible in the foreground is Lago di Fogliano, one of the laghi costieri, "coastal lagoons".