Points of interest
Beaches, limestone summits, coastal lakes, prehistoric caves and hilltop villages: every place on the promontory has its own guide with curiosities, practical details and exact position.
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Papal towers
16th-century coastal tower, one of the first four built in 1562 by Pope Pius IV at Cala Moresca (or Concolino) to defend the Circeo promontory. Of all the towers in...
Papal towers
Coastal watchtower rebuilt in a larger and more efficient form in place of the earlier, crumbling 16th-century tower, as part of the wider defensive system which, ov...
Papal towers
The only one of the six coastal towers of the Circeo to keep its original structure intact, built in the 16th century by the outlet of Lake Sabaudia (then Lake Paola...
Papal towers
The last of the Circeo’s coastal towers to be built, in the third decade of the 17th century, completing the anti-pirate defence system begun in the previous century...
Forts
Fortified post on the Circeo promontory, whose name is now also linked to one of the best-known hiking trails in the area, leading to this strategic point overlookin...
Forts
Small fort at Cretarossa, on the Circeo promontory, whose place name recalls the reddish colour typical of the clays (crete) that surface in this part of the area. T...
Forts
Small fort at Monticchio, on the side of the Circeo promontory, in the same area as the remains of the archaic temple of the same name and one of the historic alabas...
Forts
The coastal batteries of Cervia and Moresca were built by the French troops garrisoned at San Felice Circeo in 1811, replacing the 16th-century towers of the same na...
Caves
Cave discovered by chance on 24 February 1939 during stone quarrying on the property of Mr Guattari, whose entrance had been sealed by an ancient landslide about 53,...
Caves
Coastal cave on the southern side of the promontory, reachable on foot along the same hiking route that leads to the Grotta delle Capre and the Grotta dell’Impiso, i...
Caves
The most famous and visited of the Circeo caves after the Guattari Cave, on the southern side of the promontory at Quarto Caldo. Just past the entrance is a majestic...
Caves
Karst cave on the Circeo promontory, part of the rich complex of about forty caves, mostly of karst origin, that open along the coast and inside Mount Circeo. Like m...
