Fondi is a small town in Italy, halfway between Rome and Naples. Before the construction of the motorway between the latter cities in the late 1950s, Fondi had been an important settlement on the Roman Appian Way (Italian and Latin: via Appia), which connected Rome to much of southern Italy. City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Democratici di Sinistra) Area  - City Proper  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost 4,000,000 1... Location within Italy Naples (Italian Napoli, Neapolitan Napule, from Greek Νέα Πόλις - Néa Pólis - meaning New City; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is the largest city in southern Italy and capital of Campania Region. ... // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the height of the baby-boom from returning... Remains of the Appian Way in Rome, Italy The Appian Way (Latin: Via Appia) is a famous road built by the Romans. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Democratici di Sinistra) Area  - City Proper  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost 4,000,000 1...

Fondi is the main town of the Plain of Fondi (Piana di Fondi in Italian), a small plain between the Volsci and Aurunci mountains and the Tyrrhenian Sea. The plain includes three lakes and is agriculturally very fertile. Most in evidence are greenhouses for the production of early crops for sale in Rome. The 15-km (10mi) sandy beach stretches from Sperlonga in the South-East to Terracina in the North-West and lies along the Gulf of Gaeta, with views (when the weather is clear) to the Pontine Islands. Tyrrhenian Sea. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Democratici di Sinistra) Area  - City Proper  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost 4,000,000 1... The Pontine Islands The Pontine Islands are an archipelago in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the west coast of Italy. ...

Fondi has an ancient history, beginning with early settlements about 1000 BC, roman citizenship for its inhabitants from 338 BC. Subsequent includes roman, barbarian, byzantine and norman periods. On September 20, 1378, cardinals to Pope Urban VI joined in conclave in Fondi and elected Clement VII (who is usually referred to as an antipope, in contrast to a later pope also named Clement VII). In 1534, Fondi was sacked by Khair ad Din, who was seeking to kidnap the beautiful Giula Gonzaga and bring her as a gift to his emperor Suleiman, though she escaped. This history has left Fondi with the remains of a magnificent city wall and a medieval city center, including the occasional cobbled street. (Redirected from 1000 BC) Centuries: 12th century BC - 11th century BC - 10th century BC Decades: 1050s BC 1040s BC 1030s BC 1020s BC 1010s BC - 1000s BC - 990s BC 980s BC 970s BC 960s BC 950s BC Events and Trends 1006 BC - David becomes king of the ancient Israelites (traditional... September 20 is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years). ... Events March - John Wyclif tried to gain public favour by laying his theses before parliament, and then made them public in a tract. ... Urban VI, née Bartolomeo Prignano ( 1318 – October 15, 1389), pope (1378 to 1389), was a native of Naples. ... For the other Clement VII who was Pope from 1523 to 1534, see Pope Clement VII. Robert of Geneva (1342-16 September 1394) was elected to the papacy by the French cardinals who opposed Urban VI, thereby becoming the first antipope of the Western Schism, as Pope Clement VII. He... Antipope Felix V, the last historical Antipope. ... Khair ad Din Khair ad Din (c. ... Giulia Gonzaga (pronounced as Julia) was born in Gazzuolo (near Mantova) in 1513. ... Suleiman the Magnificent Suleiman I (November 6, 1494 – September 5/6, 1566); in Turkish Süleyman and in the Arabic alphabet سليمان (nicknamed the Magnificent in Europe and the Lawgiver in the Islamic World, in Turkish Kanuni) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1520 to 1566 and successor to...

Being the center of a busy agricultural area means Fondi is a commercial center for the region, and well connected by road (the via Appia, mostly following the route of the ancient roman way) and railroad to Rome, Naples, and places beyond and between.

External Links

• Official page for the government of Fondi (in Italian)