Places of the Circeo

Stretch of rocky coast below the ancient alabaster quarry and the Blanc Shelter. The “Amphitheatre on the sea” includes the cave of the alabaster quarry of the same...

Stretch of rocky coast between the Grotta delle Capre and the Grotta dell’Impiso. The park through which it is reached is owned by the Municipality.

This is an area of the highest value within the natural area of the Circeo National Park, one of the most precious places in the territory – not only for the sea, bu...

The Acropolis, built in one of the most fascinating and evocative places on the promontory, began as a fortified citadel consisting solely of the marvellous and impo...

Today’s Historic Centre stands on the site of the ancient city of Circeii, following its original perimeter. The layout of the ancient city was very simple: a rectan...

Between roughly the 5th and 11th centuries, the Roman town of Circeii was abandoned by the local population, by then very small, who settled mainly along the slopes...

The only building in the historic centre of San Felice Circeo that can be attributed with certainty to the Knights Templar, built between 1239/1240 and 1259 on a bas...

Distinctive six-hour clock installed on the tower in the early 19th century by Prince Stanisław Poniatowski: the dial shows only six numbers and the single hand make...

Next to the Templar Tower, this room is one of the architectural testimonies linked to the presence of the Knights of the Temple in the historic centre of San Felice...

Historic green space in the centre of San Felice Circeo, once a vineyard belonging to the baronial court and now a public garden and belvedere, one of the best-loved...

Façades and exterior elevations of the Baronial Palace, built in the 14th-15th centuries by the Caetani family and completed in its current form during the 17th cent...

Interior rooms of the Baronial Palace of San Felice Circeo, the historic residence of the noble families who governed the fief in turn – the Caetani, Ruspoli, Orsini...