The importance of Circeo National Park

With the establishment of the Circeo Park the Italian government was able to save important natural habitats somehow quite unique in Italy and in the Mediterranean region. In fact, a old plan of integral land reclamation was completing radical interventions of marshland draining including the whole deforestation of the ancient and wild "Selva di Terracina" (Terracina forest). In the early 1930s, picking up an ancient plan suggested by Julius Caesar, Mussolini drained and reclaimed 70,000 hectares of

marshland and built the inland towns of Latina (the provincial capital), Aprilia, Pontina and Sabaudia and this Mediterranean wilderness was disappearing. With the institution of the park the loss of these precious natural habitats was avoided.

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The park’s precious coastal environments, varied and outstanding as they are from the point of view of scenery and wildlife, are a good example of the original ones that, since the end of the 19th century in Italy, have suffered the most serious damages at the hand of man, which elsewhere were often irreversible. Therefore the Circeo’s Park is crucial in the preservation of the original natural beauty of the Mediterranean coastal habitat and could at least help to protect the these precious landscape

with its sea itself, just as it could also assist its nearby unspoiled areas, the scenery of forest, dunes, old houses and lighthouses, sea towers and historical centers.

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