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31-771: Colleferro (IPA: /kɔllefɛrro/) is a small town with 20 698 inhabitants of the Metropolitan City of Rome in the Lazio region of central Italy . It is a residential zone with many different industries and sports structures. It borders the City of Frosinone . Colleferro is located near the Sacco River in the Sacco Valley . Appian and Plutarch describe a decisive battle in the Civil War against Gaius Marius

62-440: A cement factory opened (the "Lime & Cement Segni", subsequently acquired by Italcementi ), using materials quarried from the nearby town of Segni . Colleferro continued growing throughout the 1920s and 1930s with still within the municipality of Valmontone. In 1935 Colleferro was incorporated as a new city. Later, Colleferro incorporated portions of the neighboring municipalities of Segni and Paliano. On 1 February 1938 there

93-442: A distance of 25.5 km (16 mi). It will partly replace the existing Termini -Pantano rail line. It will feature full automated, driverless trains. The first section with 15 stations connecting Pantano with the quarter of Centocelle in the eastern part of the city, opened on 9 November 2014. The end of the work was scheduled in 2015, but archaeological findings often delay underground construction work. A fourth line, D line,

124-525: A province, are conceived for improving the performance of local administrations and to slash local spending by better coordinating the municipalities in providing basic services (including transport, school and social programs) and environment protection. In this policy framework, the Mayor of Rome is designated to exercise the functions of Metropolitan mayor, presiding over a Metropolitan Council. The Council consists of mayors and city councillors of each comune in

155-558: Is also planned. It will have 22 stations over a distance of 20 km (12 mi). SNIA S.p.A. SNIA S.p.A. was an Italian firm located in Milan that manufactured defence products, textiles, chemicals, perfumes, and corrugated paper among other products. The Società di Navigazione Italo-Americana (SNIA) was founded as a shipping company in 1917 in Turin by the financier Riccardo Gualino of Turin . Giovanni Agnelli of Fiat

186-427: Is linked from the beginning to its industrial, with the opening of explosives Bombrini Parodi Delfino (BDP), to which were added numerous chemical plants and textile. The industrial area of Colleferro spread over 1000 hectares of land, mostly owned by Se.co.svim. Some of the companies in the territory and have been: SNIA S.p.A. for working with pozzolan 's Italcementi in the chemical Caffaro Ketones, Caffaro Benzoin

217-508: Is one of the largest railway stations in Europe and the most heavily used in Italy, with around 400 thousand travellers passing through every day. The second-largest station in the city, Roma Tiburtina , has been redeveloped as a high-speed rail terminus. Rome is served by three airports. The intercontinental Leonardo da Vinci International Airport is Italy's chief airport, is located within

248-547: Is represented by the Tyrrhenian Sea on which spread to about 130 kilometres (81 mi) from the coast near Rome from Civitavecchia to Torre Astura. In the territory there are several lakes, almost all of volcanic origin, which are concentrated in the north-west of the mountains and Sabatini in the south-east of the Colli Albani. The new Metro municipalities, giving large urban areas the administrative powers of

279-721: Is the centre of a radial network of roads that roughly follow the lines of the ancient Roman roads which began at the Capitoline Hill and connected Rome with its empire. Today Rome is circled, at a distance of about 10 km (6 mi) from the Capitol, by the ring-road (the Grande Raccordo Anulare or GRA). Due to its location in the centre of the Italian peninsula, Rome is the principal railway node for central Italy. Rome's main railway station, Termini ,

310-479: Is twinned with: Colleferro is home to the following churches: The air-raid shelters , residues of World War II, where some 1,500 civilians found shelter during the bombing, most of the "refuge" is still open on the feast of St. Barbara (4 December), patron of the country. The territory has always been an agricultural vocation. From 2006 is in the "Rural District and the Valley of the agro-energy Latin. As part of

341-595: The Metropolitana operates in the Metropolitan City of Rome. Construction on the first branch started in the 1930s. The line had been planned to quickly connect the main railway station with the newly planned E42 area in the southern suburbs, where the 1942 World Fair was supposed to be held. The event never took place because of war, but the area was later partly redesigned and renamed EUR (Esposizione Universale di Roma: Rome Universal Exhibition) in

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372-635: The crash of 1929 , SNIA recovered under the leadership of Franco Marinotti and enjoyed prosperity until World War II , when the manufacturing plants were heavily bombed by the Allies. Post-1945, Marinotti again restored the firm to being a profitable enterprise. After acquiring Bombrini-Parodi-Delfino in 1968, SNIA also produced weapons systems such as the Medusa rocket system. SNIA later also manufactured medical products following its merger with Sorin Group in

403-540: The province of Rome . The Metropolitan City of Rome Capital is headed by the Metropolitan Mayor ( Sindaco metropolitano ) and governed by the Metropolitan Council ( Consiglio metropolitano ). Roberto Gualtieri is the incumbent mayor, having taken office on 21 October 2021. The Metropolitan City of Rome Capital covers almost one-third of the territory of Lazio . It occupies the flat area of

434-459: The 1950s to serve as a modern business district. The line was finally opened in 1955, and it is now the south part of the B Line. The A line opened in 1980 from Ottaviano to Anagnina stations, later extended in stages (1999–2000) to Battistini. In the 1990s, an extension of the B line was opened from Termini to Rebibbia. This underground network is generally reliable (although it may become very congested at peak times and during events, especially

465-634: The 1980s. In November 2009, SNIA's debt reached almost 25 million euros. As of December 2009, SNIA was to present its debt-restructuring plan to the Milan court system for approval. The attempt to save the firm failed in April 2010 and the firm was declared insolvent by the Court of Milan. In December 2010, the Italian Stock Exchange ordered the withdrawal of SNIA ordinary shares and bonds from

496-434: The A line) as it is relatively short. The A and B lines intersect at Roma Termini station. A new branch of the B line (B1) opened on 13 June 2012 after an estimated building cost of €500 million. B1 connects to line B at Piazza Bologna and has four stations over a distance of 3.9 km (2 mi). A third line, the C line, is under construction with an estimated cost of €3 billion and will have 30 stations over

527-583: The Mediterranean Sea ( Lido di Ostia ), equipped with a tourist port and a small channel-harbour for fisher boats. The main harbour which serves Rome is the Port of Civitavecchia , located about 62 km (39 mi) northwest of the city, part of the " Motorways of the Sea ", it is linked to several Mediterranean ports and is one of the busiest cruise ports in the world . A 3-line metro system called

558-401: The Metropolitan City elected from amongst themselves using partially open list proportional representation , with seats allocated using the D'Hondt method . Metropolitan councillors are elected at-large for five-year terms ; votes for metropolitan councillors are weighted by grouping comunes of a certain population range into nine groups so that votes of the mayors and city councillors of

589-569: The Roman and the Tiber Valley to the mountains and dell'Aniene Lucretili Sabini and, in addition to the mountainous regions of the Tolfa and Monti Sabatini to the north-west, the area of the mountains Tiburtini Prenestini Simbruini and east, the area of the Colli Albani and the northern foothills of the mountains, and high Lepine Sacco valley to the south-east. The western boundary of the province

620-499: The Se.co . Svim; for the construction and repair of the railway car body Alstom and RFI . Among the companies working with advanced teconology, Avio operates in the aerospace sector. Simmel business is in the war industry. Colleferro includes the following sport venues: Metropolitan City of Rome It was established on 1 January 2015 by the terms of Law 142/1990 (Reform of local authorities) and by Law 56/2014. It superseded

651-561: The Younger , which took place in 82 BC at Colleferro, concluded in favor of Sulla . At the end of the siege, Marius committed suicide. At Colleferro Italian patriot Enrico Toti , on 27 March 1908, had his left leg crushed. The train was stopped at the station to be joined by the Colleferro train. Toti was lubricating the engine of the locomotive and, when the locomotive moved, he slipped causing his left leg to be trapped and crushed by

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682-522: The firm and cut output drastically. The foreign intervention was seen as humiliating by the fascists. In 1930 Gualino was forced to sell his share in SNIA Viscosa and many other investments to try to reduce his debt. By this time the company had lost its leadership position, but in 1931 it was the first to manufacture a short-fiber flock, and the first to produce cellulose from reeds to eliminate dependence on imported materials. Only barely surviving

713-536: The gears. The development of the town began as early as 1912 with the conversion of a long-disused sugar factory (the Valsacco factory) to an explosive factory. Initially, the town developed away from where the center is today; the first few buildings (including the Church of St. Joachim) were built within the territory of the nearby town of Valmontone , near the train station that was then called "Segni-Paliano", and

744-429: The mid-1920s SNIA Viscosa was the largest company in Italy in terms of capital. By 1926 SNIA Viscosa had become the second-largest rayon producer in the world. The United States produced more rayon in total, but Italy was the world's largest rayon exporter. In 1927–28 Courtaulds and Vereinigte Glanzstoff-Fabriken (VGF) gained control of SNIA Viscosa. A German director of VGF, Karl Scherer, replaced Gualino as head of

775-404: The more populous groups are worth than those of less populous groups. The Metropolitan Council of the city was elected on 20 December 2021: There are 121 comunes of Metropolitan City of Rome Capital. The comunes with the largest populations are listed below. Here is a list of the municipal government in cities and towns with more than 15,000 inhabitants: The Metropolitan City of Rome Capital

806-513: The nearby Fiumicino , south-west of Rome. The older Rome Ciampino Airport is a joint civilian and military airport. It is commonly referred to as "Ciampino Airport", as it is located beside Ciampino , south-east of Rome. A third airport, the Rome Urbe Airport , is a small, low-traffic airport located about 6 km (4 mi) north of the city centre, which handles most helicopter and private flights. The city has its own quarter on

837-515: The redevelopment of the Valle del Sacco was initiated an experiment in "non-food crops (crops not for food). The crops will be sunflower for the biodiesel and poplars to power boilers biomass . As for the 'livestock, the environmental crisis had forced the slaughter of livestock and destruction of health protection for milk in all farms in the area. The farm has since rebounded with numerous protections for consumers. The development of Colleferro

868-473: The wounded and the town. During World War II, the Allies repeatedly bombarded Colleferro to destroy the explosives factory. During the attacks, citizens found shelter in a series of caves and tunnels built under the "BPD Village". In the early 1950s, BPD manufactured Lauryl, the first soap powder in Italy. On 9 October 2007 one person was killed and eight were injured in an explosion at a weapons factory belonging to Italian company Simmel Difesa . Colleferro

899-465: Was renamed "Segni-Station Colleferro" after the birth of the town. The engineer Leopoldo Parodi Delfino (former senator and son of the founder of the National Bank, then Bank of Italy ) and Senator Giovanni Bombrini founded the 'Bombrini Parodi Delfino explosives factory. Nearby, a new "BPD Village" was created, and factory workers and their families from throughout Italy moved into them. Later,

930-562: Was the worst ever explosion at the Bombrini Parodi Delfino (BPD). The number of dead and wounded and the damage was so severe that the news was reported even in the British Times . Within about three hours with of the explosion, the king, Victor Emmanuel III , Benito Mussolini , along with government and military officials, were in Colleferro to see what happened, visiting the wounded, and planning what to do for

961-537: Was vice-president of SNIA from 1917 to 1926. Gualino and Agnelli became involved in the profitable transport of US aid to Europe in 1917. In the early 1920s SNIA began to manufacture artificial textile fibers. Artificial cellulose fibers had been produced before the war, but SNIA was the first to mass-produce rayon. The company was given the new name of SNIA Viscosa ( Società nazionale industria e applicazioni viscosa , National Rayon Manufacturing and Application Company). Gualino made huge investments in SNIA Viscosa. By

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