The land belonging to the Natural Monument Palude di Torre Flavia, with its 48 hectares spread out along the Tyrrhenian coast, north of the mouth of the river Tiber, between Cerveteri and Ladispoli (in the province of Rome), is a very important wetland that protects numerous bird species, especially during the migratory seasons. The territory conserves what is left of the coastal environment of Lazio of years past with sandy dunes, lakes, ponds, water courses, large forests on the plains and a wealth of fauna. In some places it is separated from the sea by narrow spits of sand, in others it extends out to the water. Behind the beach (which has suffered intense erosion and reduction), a row of dunes bounds the marshland which features pools, ponds and canals with intermittent strips of land, all covered with thick cane. An artificial dock leads to the ruins of ancient torre Flavia, isolated from the beach by coastal erosion.
The draining that began early in the 1900s and more recently the urbanisation of the hamlet of Campo di Mare (in the 1960s) has gradually reduced the original large swamp to the present-day 37 hectares. This marked the beginning of a period of abandonment and degradation. Today the area is a Special Protection Zone under the care of the WWF.
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