The University of Cassino and Southern Lazio is an Italian state university founded in 1979. The University was established by Law April 3, 1979 n. 122, on the basis of previous concrete initiatives between 1964 and 1968, with the foundation first of a balanced Institute of Magisterium and then of the Cassinese University Consortium. Because of its geographical position on the ancient Via Casilina that connects Rome to Naples, it is the meeting point between the cities of Southern Lazio, Campania. of Molise and of Abruzzo from which it canalizes the majority of the students, also thanks to the humanistic and cultural tradition carried on in the centuries from the Abbey of Montecassino.
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