Borgo Medievale di Nettuno

Beautiful village, unfortunately not cared for as it deserves. Inside there are various types of activities, such as bars, restaurants and pizzerias. But also a bookshop, and occasionally a small shop of very characteristic handicrafts. Inside there is a beautiful harbor and sea view with several descents that lead directly to the harbor.

The medieval village is beautifully typical with its restaurants inside and the sea around the walls and the port is top

Unique reference for a walk in the ancient village of the seaside city. Not very accurate in the cleanliness of the city, small and welcoming rooms. Certainly a reference for a take away lunch, or for a fish-based lunch.

Classic medieval village characterized by stairways, alleys and glimpses in this case, on the port. Full of clubs but unfortunately several have remained closed due to the covid. Fortunately, in the summer some have reopened, offering colors, scents and happy chats ... Not always well attended (nocturnal "naughty") The photo shows one of the entrances, this is on Corso Matteotti.

Gorgeous. To visit. Great for a vacation or just an outing. Great daytrip from Rome. It can be reached by train from Rome Termini in 70 minutes and back in the day. Lots of restaurants for everyone. Highly recommended.

The village, even if defined as medieval, has much more ancient origins. It was the port and the oldest part of the Volsca city Antium, formed by today's Anzio and Nettuno and was called Cenone [without source]. It is therefore the oldest area of ​​the whole Antium. When Nero died in 68, who had built the Neronian port, north of where there is now the Innocenziano port in Anzio and the temple of the God Neptune in the current village, Antium fell into ruin, following numerous looting and raids by the Goths, and its inhabitants migrated to the Neptunese village. Less than ten years after Nero's death, which occurred on June 9 of the year 68, Antium was already almost entirely in ruins. At the beginning of the sixth century Antium, like many other cities, was sacked and destroyed by the Goths, who roamed around Lazio and the Roman coast, sowing destruction and death. Thus it was the neighborhood of Neptune that continued the history of ancient Antium: the port of Antium was abandoned, and all the survivors moved to a small group of houses around the temple of the God Neptune, which after a short time would become the current one. medieval village of Nettuno. In the ninth century, Neptune was occupied by the Saracens and the inhabitants fled to the mountains, into the forests, but the troops of Pope Benedict VIII decimated the Saracens, saving women and children, who formed the new nucleus of Neptune. The Pope drove out the Tuscolo, feudal lords of Nettuno, and the fiefdom passed first into the hands of the monks of Grottaferrata and then to the Orsini who built the walls with eight towers, all around the village. In the 16th century Nettuno was nothing more than a small inhabited center, surrounded by walls and towers, in the center of which stood the church of San Giovanni and a little further on there was the Sangallo fort, built at the beginning of the century, between the 1501 and 1503, by Pope Alexander VI Borgia, to defend the Papal State from the assaults of marauders, privateers, Arab and African pirates. In the two-year period 1625/26 the Papal State, after having bought it in 1594 from Marcantonio Colonna (III) for four hundred thousand scudi, restored the village and rebuilt the bastion of S. Rocco. At the beginning of the twentieth century the village remained the heart of the town. Rich in noble palaces and simple houses, all around the Collegiate Church, dedicated to Saints John the Baptist and the Evangelist. Around the Collegiate there were the Oratorio del Carmine, the church of SS. Sacramento, the baronial palace formerly belonging to the Colonna family, now owned by the Borghese. In the village there were also the Palazzo dei Segneri and the majestic Palazzo Doria-Pamphilj with the frescoes by Pier Francesco Mola visible in the rooms of the school adjacent to the Palazzo itself.