  The Frascati National Laboratory (LNF) is the largest and the oldest among
the National Laboratories of the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN).
Since its foundation in 1954, it has been devoted to two main activities: the
development, construction and operation of particle accelerators; the design
and construction of forefront detectors for particle, nuclear and astroparticle
physics. The research program of LNF is focused on fundamental research, but
interdisciplinary activity has grown of importance along the years, with a
perfect balance between internal and external activities. The scientific
program taking place at LNF, at present, is still centered on the DA$\Phi$NE
complex, but in the last years, a second accelerator infrastructure, SPARC_LAB,
devoted to the study and development of new technique of particle acceleration
is marking the path toward the future: EuPARXIA. This will be an European
infrastructure for plasma acceleration development. In this paper, an overview
of the research program of the Laboratory and of the future perspectives is
presented.
