ancient ruins
Ostia Antica
The remarkably well-preserved harbor city of ancient Rome, featuring apartment blocks, baths, theaters, and commercial buildings that reveal Roman urban life.
5 km · about 10 min drive
Lazio, Italy · Europe
Fiumicino works well as a base: 10 minutes from Focene, 5km from Ostia Antica.
Fiumicino is a town located in Lazio, Italy. With a population of 34,556, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Fiumicino sits in Italy, where you drive on the right. It's in the Europe/Rome time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Fiumicino to your route.
Giovanni Battista Grassi (27 March 1854 – 4 May 1925) was an Italian physician and zoologist, best known for his pioneering works on parasitology, especially on malariology. He was Professor of Comparative Zoology at the University of Catania from 1883, and Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Sapienza University ofRead more
Rome from 1895 until his death. His first major research on the taxonomy and biology of termites earned him the Royal Society's Darwin Medal in 1896.
Grassi's scientific contributions covered embryological development of honey bees, on helminth parasites, the vine parasite phylloxera, on migrations and metamorphosis in eels, on arrow worms and termites. He was the first to demonstrate the life cycle of human dwarf tapeworm Taenia nana, and that this tapeworm does not require an intermediate host, contrary to popular belief. He was the first to demonstrate the direct life cycle of the roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides by self-experimentation. He described canine filarial worm Dipetalonema reconditum, and demonstrated the parasite life cycle in fleas, Pulex irritans. He invented the genus of threadworms Strongyloides. He named the spider Koenenia mirabilis in 1885 after his wife, Maria Koenen. He pioneered the foundation of pest control for phylloxera of grapes.
The most important contributions of Grassi are on malariology, discovering different species of malarial parasites in birds and humans, and their transmission. With Raimondo Feletti, he discovered Haemamoeba praecox and H. relictum (now under the genus Plasmodium) in birds. They correctly described Haemamoeba malariae and H. vivax (both now under Plasmodium), which became fundamental to clinical distinction of different human malaria: benign tertian caused by P. vivax, malignant tertian by P. falciparum and benign quartan by P. malariae). He was the first to describe and establish the life cycle of the human malarial parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, the most prevalent and deadliest species. He discovered that only female anopheline mosquitoes are capable of transmitting the disease.
Grassi's works in malaria remain a lasting controversy in the history of Nobel Prizes. Since the inception of Nobel Prizes in 1901 until his death, he was nominated 21 times. For the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, he was nominated alongside French physician Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, who discovered P. falciparum, and British army surgeon Ronald Ross. He and Ross were shortlisted for the final award, but Ross who appeared to have make the least important discovery, the transmission of malarial parasite in birds, was the sole winner. Grassi, who demonstrated the complete route of transmission of human Plasmodium, and correctly identified the types of malarial parasite as well as the mosquito vector, Anopheles claviger, was denied.
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Fiumicino is located in Lazio, Italy, Europe. The coordinates are 41.7709 latitude, 12.2366 longitude.
Fiumicino has a population of approximately 34,556 people, making it a town in Italy.
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ancient ruins
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Largest church in the world in Vatican City, a Renaissance masterpiece crowned by Michelangelo's iconic dome.
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Chapel in the Apostolic Palace famous for Michelangelo's breathtaking ceiling frescoes and The Last Judgement.
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A vast complex of galleries culminating in the Sistine Chapel, containing one of the world's most important art collections.
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A towering cylindrical fortress on the banks of the Tiber in Rome, originally built as a mausoleum for Emperor Hadrian.
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A perfectly preserved 2,000-year-old Roman temple with the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome and its iconic oculus.
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Rome's most elegant Baroque square built over an ancient Roman stadium, adorned with Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers.
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ancient ruins
The sprawling ruins of the political and social heart of ancient Rome, once the center of the most powerful empire in the Western world.
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