Civitavecchia is a town and comune of the province of Rome in the central Italian region of Lazio, a sea port on the Tyrrhenian sea WNW of Rome, 42°06N 11°47E. According to the 2003 census, its population was 50,100. In Italy, the commune (comune, plural comuni) is the basic administrative unit of both provinces and regions, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township. ... Rome (It. ... Latium (now Lazio in Italian) is a region of central Italy, bordered by Tuscany, Umbria, Abruzzo, Molise, Campania and the Tyrrhenian Sea. ... Categories: Stub | Commercial item transport and distribution | Transportation ... The Etruscan civilization existed in Etruria and the Po valley in the northern part of what is now Italy, prior to the formation of the Roman Republic. ... Location within Italy The Roman Colosseum Rome (Italian and Latin: Roma) is the capital city of Italy and of its Latium region. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Further, one may say that Grossetto is on the diligence road from CivitaVecchia to Leghorn, and that in the very heart of the place there is a lovely palm-tree, rare, if not sole, in that latitude.
But such was the desolating and depressing influence of the weather and the landscape, that we reached CivitaVecchia as undecided as we had left Rome.
We were thoroughly humbled in spirit, and had no longer any doubt that we did ill to take the diligence at CivitaVecchia instead of the steamer ; for we had been, not nineteen hours, but four days on the road, and we had suffered as aforementioned.