| Roman Coastal Reserve | | | Zones | | | Capocotta and the dunes |
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The inclusive
coast between Ostia and Torvaianica is one of the few areas of the region
Lazio where we can still find an almost intact coastal
dune (between the coast road and the water's edge) and where elsewhere
we can find roads, bathing establishments, houses, car parks in place of
dunes: a delicate environment that can also be destroyed by the excessive
trampling.
In these areas we can see vegetation succeeding to the sea in parallel bands passing from scattered bushes of the annual herbaceous species, to the cheniers surmounted by the bushes of perennial grass, through depressed zones between dunes with reeds and alders, becoming thick bushes of junipers and phillyreas. Going toward the inside, the latter bushes in which we can also find the strawberry tree, the lentisk, the sage-leaved cistus, the heather and multiflora, gradually increases in height till becoming wood of holm oaks or laurels. Wildlife is surrounded but interesting and has an abundant population of foxes, rabbits and small melodious birds such as the sardinian warbler (Sylvia melanocephala), the subalpine warbler (Sylvia cantillans), the blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) and the nightingale (Luscinia megarhyncha). |
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