In 1998 the area where one of the largest paper production plants in the Center South stood, the Cartiera Latina (Latina Paper Mill), was granted to the Appia Antica Regional Park, to make it its headquarters and a multifunctional center of services and hospitality.
The former Cartiera Latina, one of the few surviving industrial plants in the city of Rome, is a unique structure of its kind and exceptional for its strategic position close to the Aurelian Walls, lapped for its entire length by the Almone river, ideally joins the Appia Ancient to via Cristoforo Colombo.
In reality, the first evidence of the production history of this place dates back to the year 1061 when there was a structure used for the fulling of woolen cloths, the valca, used since 1600 by the Capuchin Fathers for the production of woolen fabrics produced in their convent of Rome, at the beginning of the 19th century it was transformed into a mill to grind natural substances for different uses.
In 1912 the plant was modified and the production of paper from linen and cotton rags and later from waste paper began.
The factory closed in 1985.
Today the multifunctional complex of the ex Cartiera Latina has two exhibition rooms (Nagasawa and Appia) and a Conference Room that can be rented for events and exhibitions (see Regulations); a library; a naturalistic didactic exhibition space, Dì Natura, where activities for schools and families take place and where there is an Info Point with Bookshop.
An equipped outdoor green space that houses an educational garden, called Hortus Urbis, an educational area dedicated to the traditions of the Roman countryside and an area equipped for parking.
Latina Paper Mill
Address: Via Appia Antica, 42
Phone: 065135316
Site:
http://www.parcoappiaantica.it/home/il-parco/cartiera-latinaLocation inserted by
Marco Messina