Istituto Antimalarico Pontino

The Istituto Antimalarico Pontino is the oldest extant building of Latina (via Urbano Rattazzi, 1)¹. It was built in the early 1920s - about ten years before the foundation of the town of Littoria/Latina - in order to provide anti malarial prophylaxis and general health care to the workers involved in the reclamation of the Pontine Marshes and to the local rural population. The building now hosts the Casa dell'Architettura and the Istituto di Cultura Urbana.

The Istituto Antimalarico Pontino

The Istituto Antimalarico Pontino on March 1930²

• Photos 1 and 2 by Augusto Sgobba moc.liamg|abbogsotsugua#| (August 2014)

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Footnotes

1. See Marcello Trabucco, Latina più in vista. La città nuova ed i luoghi antichi, richhezze e particolarità di un territorio da conoscere, Raimondo Editori, Latina 2009, pp. 59 and 63.

2. Image retrieved from AA.VV., Il Quadrato dove è sorta Littoria, Ed. Novecento, Latina 2001?, p. 35. The extant building seems to be the one to the far left.