Between Cattolica and the Cervia pinewood, nine seaside colonies — ship-shaped dormitories, company commissions and one 1912 hospice — trace the razionalismo balneare of the Romagna coast. A driving route with map and GPX links them all.

Founded in 1938 and inaugurated on the eve of the war, Pomezia closed the Pontine series with the most compact civic centre of the five – the nucleo aulico of the 2PST group, with the curated itinerary map.

Inaugurated in 1937 and shelled to rubble on the Anzio front line in 1944, Aprilia is the Pontine new town that tells two stories. The church of San Michele Arcangelo carries both dates – with the curated itinerary map.

Between celebrated Latina and celebrated Sabaudia sits the new town nobody writes about. Pontinia, third of the five, is rural rationalism at its most distilled – a founded town still readable street by street, with the curated itinerary map.

Planned in 1933 by Cancellotti, Montuori, Piccinato and Scalpelli and built in barely a year, Sabaudia is the masterwork of Italian rationalist urbanism. Two buildings, one civic idea, and the Ferrazzi mosaic – with the curated itinerary map.

Founded as Littoria in 1932 on the drained Pontine Marshes, Latina still reads exactly as Oriolo Frezzotti drew it. A five-stop walk through the first new town, from the Palazzo Comunale to Palazzo M, with the curated itinerary map.