| Lavinio – Lido di Enea is a small beach side tourist town in Lazio, Italy, about 50 km west of Rome and sports a wide sandy beach. The site of the ancient Latin settlement of Lavinium, now some distance from the sea, is at Pratica. Lavinio is not far from the regional park of Tor Caldara, as well as from the small cities of Anzio and Nettuno.
During the World War II, many Allied soldiers fought and died on the beach and in the surrounding countryside of this town. As perennial memory, a marble stele, elevated and in front of the sea, remembers this sacrifice.
The ancient Lavinium not coincide with the current Lavinio. Lavinium, the place where legend has it that Aeneas came together to Anchise father and son Ascanio, is located at the mouth of the ditch at Pratica di Mare to Torvaianica.
Lavinio is connected with Rome by the highway Nettunense (SR 207) and Via Ardeatina (SP 601). It is accessible by the railway line Roma-Nettuno (departures and destinations to and from Termini) and bus Co.Tra.L.
Regional Park Tor Caldara
Located 2 minutes drive from "Piazza Lavinia" and near the sea, is probably the biggest tourist attraction of the place. It covers an area of 44 hectares and gives the opportunity to see a wide variety of flora and fauna. You can find different species of reptiles, amphibians, birds and mammals.
Inside the regional park there are very interesting ruins: a Palaeolithic settlement, a Roman villa, and the tower built behind the beach by Marcantonio Colonna with the permission of Pope Pius IV around the mid-sixteenth century.
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