One of the very few Italian cities without ancient history, Latina was founded in 1932. The center of Agro Pontino was a vast swampy area and the humid and warm climate favored the reproduction of mosquitoes carrying malaria, which was a real plague for the few inhabitants of those areas.

In reality, the Volsci already founded the city of Satricum, the Romans built the Via Appia and they began to reclaim the area, but the barbarian invasions and Saracens reset the work. After several attempts then abandoned by the Popes, the territory remained uncultured and unhealthy. In the thirties, engineer Prampolini planned the reclamation of the entire area, and in 1932 the government commissioner started work reclamation and construction of the city that was called Littoria.

Obviously to carry out these works and after for the repopulation and the beginning of cultivation of reclaimed lands c& rsquo; a lot of work was needed and hundreds of migrants from Veneto, Friuli and Emilia Romagna moved to Lazio in search of a better life. The construction of the city was very rapid and again in the same year in December it was inaugurated in the presence of Mussolini.

During World War II it was heavily bombarded and after the fall of the fascist government, the name was modified in Latina. In the 1960s and 1970s the city developed on an industrial level and no longer agricultural, but in the 1990s there was a sharp economic arrest when < Strong>Cassa del Mezzogiorno was abolished and later on went back to agricultural development.

In the Museum of the Terra Pontina of Latina, entirely dedicated to the history of reclamation of the former Pontine swamps, the whole project is illustrated very clearly.
Obviously, being such a young city, there are no ancient buildings to visit but still interesting is the octagonal shape of the original plan of the city agrave;.