The Laurentino-Acqua Acetosa Nature Reserve covers a surface area of 273 hectares in the Fonte Ostiense neighbourhood in south-eastern Rome. Bounded to the north by the dense building networks of Laurentino 38, the area stretches out between the via Pontina and the Acqua Acetosa complex.
Prevalently tuff rock, it extends from the slopes of the Vulcano Laziale, occupying three valleys: the urbanized fosso del Ciuccio, the most northern, which provides the axis for the Laurentino 38 street network; the fosso dell'Acqua Acetosa which features both residential and agricultural areas and was the site of a recent finding of a vast pre-Roman necropolis with a wealth of precious funeral goods now on display at the Museo Nazionale Romano; and the fosso del Vallerano, the most southern, which is an agricultural valley, its appearance unchanged since the marshes were drained in the 1930s.
The flora in the reserve includes rows of eucalyptus, planted at the end of the 1800s when it was thought that their balsamic scent would ward off malaria, while the fauna features populations of newts and green frogs found in the basalt quarry near the Casali di San Sisto.
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