City of San Felice Circeo

Degradation, incivility, noises at any time of day or night. Sea no longer as clean as it used to be. Viale Tittoni is now in total decay, as well as the neighboring squares inhabited all night by drunks and modified motorbikes. To be avoided.

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A magical place, especially in this period when it is not crowded with people.

The town of San Felice Circeo has an ancient history, which begins with Neanderthals. Over the centuries the Circeo will be a Roman colony, a possession of the Templars during the Middle Ages, a fief of the Caetani and finally a papal stronghold.

The Roman colony, the Volsci, the Latin colony and the battles against Rome. Village from Volsco first and then Roman ... rich in history dating back even to the Neanderthal man. Positioned on the promontory of the 'Circeo', it offers breathtaking views ... and interesting is the whole Aecheological part. As described by Wikipedia: 'The promontory appears from Anzio as the profile of a face of a man lying down, while from Gaeta it appears as an island, the ancient Isola Eea. Along the ridge of the promontory the following peaks rise: Vetta di Paola, Picco di Circe (541 m, the maximum height above sea level), Punta di Torre Moresca, Punta di Vasca Moresca, Punta del Fortino di Cretarossa, Punta del Traffic light (412 m), Punta dell'Acropoli or delle Crocette (352 m). There are also various hills that rise on the eastern side and that surround the historic center: Peretto, Guardia Orlando and Monticchioverso north, Monte Morrone and S. Rocco south. Various geological investigations have shown that the promontory consists mainly of limestone of various types (crystalline and white, compact, selciferous with brachiopods, clayey). ' You can't not visit it.

The municipality of S. Felice Circeo is located within the Circeo National Park, 40 Km. From Latina and 100 from Rome in an area of ​​considerable historical, landscape and naturalistic value. To visit the historic center starting from Piazza Vittorio Veneto and the beautiful Piazza L. Lanzuisi, former parade ground of the ancient fortress, protected and surrounded by the austere internal facades of the ancient baronial palace. The monumental complex, the current seat of the Town Hall, stands on the highest point of the city and is the result of numerous successive layers over time. It represents the most important building of the citadel in terms of importance and size. It is accessed from the internal courtyard to visit the rooms rich in various decorative elements including, located in the current office of the mayor, the nineteenth-century fresco in which Monte Circeo is iconographically rendered and the geomorphological characteristics of the territory, the defense towers and sighting, the ruins of the Villa dei Quattro Venti and the Roman Baths in the flat area north of the promontory where the remains of the patrician villas were located and remain. Walking through the corridors of the municipal offices you reach the easy stairway that allows the ascent to the Tower of the Templars built by the Knights between 1240 and 1259. Probably erected on a pre-existing Roman monument, it was raised one floor by Prince Poniatowsky who had the characteristic clock on which only six numbers are marked and whose single hand rotates four times in the twenty-four hours. This top floor, originally intended as a billiard room, is currently used as a temporary exhibition space and houses the collection donated to the Municipality of San Felice Circeo by the actress Elsa de Giorgi, which includes many rare pieces from her private collection including works by great artists such as Guttuso, Carlo Levi and Maccano. The hall leads to the terrace which allows an overall view of the village and the coast, up to the city of Terracina, as well as of the substructures and terracing on which the Villa dei Quattro Venti was built, where the triumvir Marco Emilio Lepido lived in his forced exile from Rome from 36 BC