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.
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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.
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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. |