Roccagorga

**Roccagorga** is a *[[comune]]* (municipality) in the Province o Latina in the Italian region Lazio, locatit aboot  sootheast o Roum an aboot  northeast o Latina. As o 31 Dizember 2004, it haed a population o 4,471 an a aurie o .

Roccagorga borders the follaein municipalities: Carpineto Romano, Maenza, Priverno, Sezze.

## Pheesical geografie
The terrain is primarily hilly an mountainous wi a sile rich in calcium. This helps provide a year-roond supply o watter tae the aurie. The climate is mediterranean, wi het, dry summers an mild, wet winters. Agriculture in the aurie focuses on the growin o olives, as favoured bi the mediterranean climate, the calcareous sile an the soothren exposure o the hillsides.

## History
Roccagorga is situatit at on Monte Nero, a hill in the soothren Lepini mountains. Its origins date back tae the aftermath o the destruction o Privernum in 796 A.D. awtho it wisna until the Middle Ages that it began tae develop on the seicont peak o Gorga, aroond the auld Castle. It is named efter the matron Gorga who, accordin tae legend, settled on Monte Nero alang wi the Privernati refugees.

## Main sichts
*Hermitage o St. Erasmus.
*Ethnical Museum o the Lepini Mountains.
*Kirk o St. Leonard an St. Erasmus.
*Baronal Palace.

## Demographic evolution

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