Sabaudia, about 50 miles southeast of Rome, was one of five towns, like nearby Latina, Pomezia, Pontinia and Aprilia, was created virtually from scratch in the 1930s when Benito Mussolini launched a campaign to drain the coastal marshland, reclaiming acres of farmland. The project was intended to help win Il Duce's Battle of Grain, waged to make the nation self-sufficient in wheat.
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