Location

Gaeta, is a beautiful seaside city, suspended between sky and sea on a promontory in the Tyrrhenian Sea, surrounded by a coastline rich in natural beauty as the beautiful “Broken Mountain” that stands in the center of the Regional Park of Monte Orlando “Riviera di Ulisse” source of Mediterranean vegetation.

The coastline has among its seven bays beaches, renowned for the fine golden sand.

The city is crossed by thousands of years of history provides a broad historical, artistic, cultural, fishing and cooking.

Well-known holiday resort in Roman times, loved by emperors, consuls and patrician families, was praised in 66 BC as “Portum Caietae celeberrimum ac plenissimum navium” by Cicero.

Virgil in the Aeneid tells of Aeneas’s nurse, who died in this shore Cajeta gave the city its name, the event was told by Dante in Hell.

In the Dark Ages became a stronghold, “Castrum”, which in the mid-ninth century it became a duchy independent with its own laws and currency.

With its fleet of maritime trade in the Mediterranean, was the Marine Republic of Amalfi, and no less than Pisa.

The city suffered several dominations Byzantine, Norman, Swabian, Angevin, Durazzo, Aragonese, Spanish and Austrian.

The Diocesan Museum of Palazzo De Vio holds the banner of the Battle of Lepanto won a vow by Marcantonio Colonna to the Cathedral of St. gaetana Erasmus, after the victory of the Christian fleet over the Turks on October 7 Lepanto in 1571.

In 1734 settled the Bourbon dynasty, under whose rule the city suffered three of the 14 sieges in its history.

With the Bourbons in 1848 Pope Pius IX in Gaeta received flight from Rome for nine months and nine days and nine hours was the role of “The Second Papal State”.

On February 13, 1861 under the city walls, after the last siege and the fall of the last bastion of Kingdom, completing the unification of Italy.

Gaeta talk about in their writings Cervantes, Boccaccio, Alfonso of Aragon, Morman and D’Annunzi

The west coast at sunset

Port and harbor of Gaeta

Castles Angioino and Aragonese
on the rock of Gaeta 

The medieval city at sunrise

Gaeta medieval with fireworks