Alatri (Latin: Aletrium) is an Italian town and comune of the province of Frosinone in the region of Lazio, with c. 30,000 inhabitants. An ancient city of the Hernici, [3] it is known for its megalithic acropolis. [4] The area of the modern city was settled as early as the 2nd millennium BC.

Alatri, town, Lazio (Latium) regione, central Italy. It lies in the Cosa River valley, at 1,647 feet (502 m) above sea level, just north of Frosinone city. Said to have been founded in 1830 bc as Alatrium (mentioned by the Greek geographer Strabo), it belonged to the confederation of the Hernici,

The medieval walled town of Alatri lies in the heart of the Ciociaria region of Lazio's Frosinone Province. Driving up the hill to the town you reach a little piazza where the defensive wall is still standing and incorporated into the modern body of the t

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Alatri virtually clings to the slopes of the Ernici mountains. It is an ancient town, founded by the Hernici people, who provided it with a mighty city wall between the 4th and 2nd centuries BC. This did not, however, prevent it from coming under the rule of Rome.

Alatri is situated on the slopes of the “Ernici” mountains, near Frosinone. With the Roman expansion and the entrance of the settlement in 484 BC into the "Foedus Cassianum", Alatri first became an ally of Rome, and in 90 BC it was elevated to the status of a “Municipium”.

A city of art and mysteries, Alatri is located in the southern part of Lazio, in the province of Frosinone. One of the reasons why it attracts tourists from all over Italy and beyond every year is undoubtedly its Acropolis .

Alatri is one of several towns in the ancient Latium Vetus—a wide area in central Italy broadly enclosed by the coast and the Apennines between Rome and Terracina—whose walls and buildings were constructed using the ‘polygonal’ technique, in which enormous stone blocks are cut in irregular shapes and perfectly fitted together without ...

The Acropolis of Alatri, at the heart of the historical center of the eponymous city, is located on top of the hill where the city is located. The whole citadel is surrounded by megalithic polygonal walls, also known as cyclopean walls, in the classic mortarless style.

Alatri is known for some of its popular attractions, which include: Acropoli di Alatri; Campo di Concentramento Le Fraschette; Church of Santa Maria Maggiore; Cattedrale di San Paolo; Fontana Pia