Federico RENZAGLIA - BONIFICA

"Agro Pontino is the 75thousands hectares plain, sourrounded by Lepini mountains and Thyrennian sea, which, from the countryside south of rome, extends to mount Circeo.

Due to its natural conformation, this plain was infested with swamps and forests and human settelment was impossible until fascist regime completed the hydraulic reclamation ("bonifica") of these lands. New cities of Littoria (today Latina), Sabaudia and Pontinia were  founded as well as many villages. So today, this area is a geographical evidence of utopic/dystopic purposes of fascism. I have got some family roots there and when my grandma died I began to explore the area. Bonifica is the work developed in parallel with this research."