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Latina Province
This province in the Lazio Region is just a few miles
outside Rome and occupies the southern coastal portion
of the region on the Tyrrhenian Sea.
The province was created in the early 1930s by the
Fascist government of Mussolini.
Tourism has become the major industry of the area,
surplanting even the agriculture that was once dominant.
While the province has a long coastline, much of it
was either covered in marshes (drained in the 1930s)
or covered in mountains.
Being so close to Rome there are many relatively large
towns and cities, though the province's capital city
of Latina is the largest. In fact, many inhabitants
of the region commute by train to Rome everyday to work.
The city of Latina itself was founded as Littoria in
the early 1930s and is populated with people from the
surrounding towns. As such, the architecture is (unlike
just about anywhere in Italy that hasn’t been destroyed
by an earthquake) a study of the 20th century only.
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