Maccarese

Maccarese
The headquarters of Bioversity International in Maccarese.
The headquarters of Bioversity International in Maccarese.
RegionLazio
ComuneRome, Fiumicino
Population
 (2011)
 • Total4,559
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

Maccarese is a locality in Lazio, Italy, in the Metropolitan City of Rome. Its administration is divided between the Municipalities of Rome (Maccarese Nord) and Fiumicino, of which it is a frazione.
It was entirely part of the Municipality of Rome until 1993, when the former Circoscrizione XIV, which included a part of the hamlet, became the autonomous Municipality of Fiumicino.

Crossed by the Arrone river, which flows into the Tyrrhenian Sea, the locality - which extends from the Fiumicino Airport to the sea and borders Fregene to the north-west - is best known for the homonymous farm Maccarese S.p.A., established in 1925 following the reclamation works of the Ager Romanus.