Fiumicino is a young municipality, but one with good prospects for development, also because of the many tourist destinations to be found nearby.
Beyond its frenetic international airport, various possibilities unfold - green pinewoods, beaches, ancient and modern ports, and archaelogical memories.
From Fiumicino, passing through the countryside and going around the edge of airport area, one arrives in Fregene by following the Viale di Porto in a northerly direction. Evidence that the town was already inhabited in Roman times comes from Velleio Patercolo and Livy, who tell of a settlement in Fregenae in 245 BC. The discovery of villas in the area showes that the place was also frequented in the Imperial period.
Today Fregene is particularly popular with tourists for its splendid pinewood, which became a national monument in 1920, for its "historic" bathing establishments and for its typical fisher village.
The village is so called because of the huts of seasonal fishermen who came from lower Latium to gather clams. Immediately after the war, the huts, built practically on the beach, were rebuilt in brick, almost all with direct access to the beach. It was in this way that this place became one of the holiday paradises for the artists of Rome's "Dolce Vita".