History

The North Gate was not originally the main entrance to the town, which was instead the Ancient Gate, to the south-east. It was the northern end of the decumanus maxi...

The Walled-up Gate owes its name to the fact that it was closed at the beginning of the 16th century, when the fief was reconquered by the Caetani, namely Guglielmo...

As the name it has kept since ancient times suggests, the convent must have been where the living quarters of the Knights Templar stood, after they settled at the Ci...

Inside the small church of the Blessed Virgin of Mercy, known as “La Madonnella”, is a cycle of devotional frescoes of particular interest for the religious and arti...

Borgo Montenero lived through the full horror of the last days of the Nazi-Fascist occupation. After the armistice of 8 September 1943, the Germans occupied central...

In the heart of Borgo Montenero stands one of the public buildings constructed in the 1930s as part of the founding of the rural villages of the Agro Pontino. During...

Where the Belvedere of the historic centre is today stood the old parish church of San Felice Circeo, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin of Mount Carmel or of Suffrage,...

The present cemetery has ancient origins, dating back to a tragic event. The town needed a proper cemetery. When the church of Santa Maria del Carmine, next to which...

Underground structure with a tholos roof (a false dome formed by concentric rings of corbelled blocks) found about twenty metres from the south-western wall of the A...