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LIDO DI OSTIA
Description	Street circuit used for 1st Circuito dell’Impero (Empire Circuit) on June 11th 1939. I don’t know if it had some section in common with Circuito Ostiense used in 1926 (I know nothing about it)
Location	Lido di Ostia RM - Roma - Lazio
Location	Lido di Ostia (Roma), at Tevere mouth and close to former Carlo Del Prete flying boat terminal. This area had been completely modified and now it’s not far from Fiumicino International Airport. Castelfusano circuit is few km East.
Latitude - Longitude	+ 41°43'46"     + 12°16'32" 41.729444     12.275556
UTM Coordinates	X = 273404.899  -  Y = 4623324.751  -  Zone 33T
Aerial photo / Map (*)	Google Maps  -    Bing Maps  -    Flash Earth  -    Portale Cartografico Nazionale  -    Visual Pagine Gialle
Altitude AMSL
Inauguration	June 11th 1939
Closing	June 11th 1939
Designer
Sources and links (Translation) (**)	(1) www.grupponline.it/GP%20Impero%201939/GP%20IMpero%2011-6-1939.htm Le Date della Storia di Ostia: La Gazzetta dello Sport press survey - June 1939 (2) Gazzetta dello Sport [Publishing date: June 1939]

(*) NOTE: a complete and detailed view of the circuit can be found (if available) on Street View by Google Maps and/or Bird's Eye and 3D views by Bing Maps for Enterprise (former Microsoft Virtual Earth): both can be reached using their own link in Aerial photo / Map cell.

(**) For on-line not-English speaking sources, click on each small flag and you open the corresponding Google Translator page with automatic translation.

Circuito dell’Impero
Description
Years	1939
Direction	Clockwise
Proposal	NO
No longer operational	YES
Car Circuit	YES
Motorbike circuit
Type	Street course
Inauguration	June 11th 1939
Closing	June 11th 1939
Last update of this page	April 4th 2006
Info last update
Designer
Distinctive points
length	10132  m	33241  ft	6.296  mi
length	10100  m	33136  ft	6.276  mi		(1)

Latitude - Longitude: + 41°43'46", + 12°16'32"
If the aerial photo is not visible, you have to zoom out by clicking (maybe more then once) button ’-’ in top left corner

Updates
Date	Track layout	Years	Description by	Map by	Thanks to	Note
May 2nd 2004	Circuito dell’Impero	1939	Guido de Carli	Guido de Carli		New	Description with map
July 2nd 2003	Circuito dell’Impero	1939	Guido de Carli			New	Description
Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list

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