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Cassino (Italian pronunciation: [kasˈsiːno]) is a comune in the province of Frosinone, Southern Italy, at the southern end of the region of Lazio, the last city of the Latin Valley. [3] Cassino is located at the foot of Monte Cairo near the confluence of the Gari and Liri rivers.
Monte Cassino (today usually spelled Montecassino) is a rocky hill about 130 kilometres (80 mi) southeast of Rome, in the Latin Valley, Italy, 2 kilometres (1 + 1 ⁄ 4 mi) west of Cassino and at an elevation of 520 m (1,710 ft).
The abbey of Monte Cassino is located in the region of Latium, in the Province of Frosinone and in the municipality of Cassino and is the seat of the Casinense Congregation. The monastery, situated on the rocky hill (altitude 516 m) of Monte Cassino near Cassino, a town in southern Latium, was founded by Benedict of Nursia around the year 529 ...
The route to Rome from the east using Route 5 was thus excluded as a viable option, leaving the routes from Naples to Rome, Highways 6 and 7, as the only possibilities; Highway 7 (the old Roman Appian Way) followed along the west coast but south of Rome ran into the Pontine Marshes, which the Germans had flooded.
Valle Latina (English: "Latin Valley") is an Italian geographical and historical region that extends from the south of Rome to Cassino, [1] [2] [3] corresponding to the eastern area of ancient Roman Latium. The valley's principal cities are Frosinone, Cassino, Sora, Grottaferrata, Anagni, and Alatri.
UNICAS is a generalist, welcoming, and inclusive university engaged in education, research, technological transfer, and public engagement. Its five departments cover a wide spectrum of areas ranging from STEM disciplines to arts and humanities, including social, economic, and legal sciences, as well as psychology, pedagogy, and foreign-language teaching.
Cassini has run low on propellant, and will become an artificial meteor at Saturn on Friday morning as it plunges to its death. NASA is now receiving the last photos ever taken by the Cassini ...
Giovanni [a] Domenico Cassini, also known as Jean-Dominique Cassini (8 June 1625 – 14 September 1712) was an Italian (naturalised French) [1] mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and engineer. Cassini was born in Perinaldo, [2] [3] near Imperia, at that time in the County of Nice, part of the Savoyard state.