GAETA


Our home away from home. For 2 years we lived in the city of Gaeta. Our apartment was only 2 blocks from Serapo beach.  The city went from 20,000 people normally to over 70-80,000 in the summer months of July and August. In August we did not move the car for 30+ days or we would have never found a spot again until September.

We lived 2 blocks away from Serapo beach, pictured here.

 

 

 

 

On the very top of Monte Orland is the Mausoleum of Lucius Munatius Plancus built in the 1st century A.D. (This monument, typically derived from Etruscan tumuli, is formed by a cylindrical body surrounded by battlement, which must have had on top a cone of earth concluded at the peak by a statue of the deceased. On the outside it is covered by squared travertine blocks and decorated with a doric frieze that carries sculptured war symbols; inside it has an annular corridor in reticulated work on which open four funerary cells arranged in a cross.)

The castles in Old Gaeta

A b/w photo of Serapo Beach with Mt. Orlando in the background.

 

The "Campanile" Built in 915

The Church of San Francesco. They are unsure when it was built, but they do know it was enlarged by King Charles II of Anjou in 128.