What to see in San Felice Circeo, an itinerary including the main monuments and places of interest, including the Templar Tower, the Baronial Palace, the San Felice Martire Church, the Maga Circe Cave and the Cyclopean Walls.
Tourist information
Located on the Circeo promontory, part of the homonymous national park, in an area full of caves, San Felice Circeo was inhabited in prehistoric times, as evidenced by some finds, including the human skull, found in the cave located in the hotel garden Neandertal, dating back to the Neanderthal period and suffering a fracture to the temple.
San Felice Circeo was a Latin center later conquered first by the Volsci and then by the Romans, who built the luxury gold villas and a port, it was also dominated by various families, finally passing under papal domination.
It is currently a popular seaside resort.
The classic itinerary to visit the town starts from Piazza Vittorio Veneto, to continue through the arched door that forms the entrance to the village.
What see
Along the way there are the Torre dei Templari, of the thirteenth century and square in shape, and the Baronial Palace, once the residence of the feudal families and today the town hall.
In the Church of San Felice Martire, built in the sixties in the same place where the old church once stood, the relics of San Felice Martire, which is the patron of Circeo, are preserved.
Among the places to see in the surrounding area, the lighthouse of Torre Cervia deserves to be remembered, representing one of the towers erected between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in defense of corsair incursions, the Grotta della Maga Circe, visible only from the sea with double arch and having a dome-shaped vault, the Grotta delle Capre, characterized by a large arched opening and easily accessible thanks to a natural platform in front of it, the remains of the acropolis of the fourth century before Christ, which include some parts of the cyclopean walls as well as the remains of a cistern, and finally the Paola Tower, erected by Paul III to defend the canal port.
