Towns of Latium (original) (raw)

- Towns of Latium (Papal Loggia in Viterbo)

Vides ut alta stet nive candidum Soracte, .. (Horace, Ode, I, IX) See how resplendent in deep snow/ Soracte stands. - Translation by J. V. Cunningham

(The dangerous miasma of the Pontine Marshes) made the rocky perch of Terracina all the more desirable, and presently we saw the sea before us. The other side of that rock city offered us a view of a vegetation which was entirely unfamiliar. Indian figs forced their large, fleshy leaves between humble grey-green myrtles, yellow-green pomegranates and pale-green olive branches. Beside the road grew flowers we had never seen before. The meadows were full of narcissus and adonis. We had the sea on our right. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Italian Journey - February 1787 - translation by W. H. Auden and E. Mayer - Collins 1962

The Benedictine convent of Subiaco, which clings to certain more or less vertiginous ledges and slopes of a vast precipitous gorge, constitutes, with the whole perfection of its setting, the very ideal of the tradition of that "extraordinary in the romantic" handed down to us, as the most attaching and inviting spell of Italy, by all the old academic literature of travel. Henry James - Italian Hours - 1907

The list includes a number of other towns which are not marked by a dot in the map.

Acquapendente Acuto Alatri Allumiere Anagni Anguillara Anticoli Corrado Anzio Ardea Arsoli Bagnaia Bagnoregio Barbarano Bassano Bellegra Blera Bolsena Bomarzo Boville Bracciano Campagnano Canale Monterano Canino Cantalupo Capena Capodimonte Capranica Capranica Prenestina Caprarola Carbognano Carpineto Casamari Casape Casinum Casperia Castel Madama Castelnuovo Castel San Pietro Castel Sant'Elia Cave Ceccano Cellere Ceprano Cervara Cerveteri Ciciliano Civita Castellana Civitavecchia Civitella San Paolo Colonna Corchiano Cori Corneto (Tarquinia) Fabrica Faleria Fara Farfa Farnese Ferentino Fiano Filacciano Filettino Fiuggi Formello Formia Fossanova Frosinone Gaeta Gallese Gallicano Gavignano Genazzano Gradoli Guadagnolo Ischia di Castro Isola del Liri Isola Farnese Lavinium (Pratica) Leprignano Licenza Lucus Feroniae Magliano Mandela Manziana Marcellina Marta Mentana Minturnae Montalto Montecelio Montefiascone Monteflavio Montelibretti Montefortino (Artena) Monterosi Monterotondo Montopoli Montorio Moricone Morlupo Nazzano Nepi Nerola Nettuno Ninfa Norma Olevano Oriolo Orte Palestrina Paliano Palidoro Palo Palombara Piglio Pisoniano Poggio Mirteto Poli Ponzano Priverno Proceno Riano Rieti Rignano Rocca Canterano Rocca di Cave Roccagiovine Rocca S. Stefano Ronciglione Roviano Sacrofano Sambuci San Felice San Gregorio da Sassola San Polo dei Cavalieri San Martino al Cimino Santa Maria di Galeria Santa Marinella Sant'Angelo Santa Severa Sant'Oreste San Vito Segni Sermoneta Sezze Sonnino Sora Soriano Sperlonga Subiaco Sutri Tarquinia (Corneto) Terracina Tolfa Torrita Tiberina Trevi Trevignano Tuscania Valentano Vallerano Valmontone Vasanello Vejano Veroli Vetralla Vicovaro Vignanello Viterbo Vitorchiano Zagarolo

The image used as background for this page shows a detail of a modern painting depicting Bagnoregio in a church of that town.