In the marshes of Minturnae, Gaius Marius hid while fleeing Sulla, and the assassin sent to kill him — Plutarch tells — was defeated by his voice alone: "Do you dare to kill Gaius Marius?". The archaeological area of the ancient city keeps its Roman theatre, which hosts summer performances again, and stretches of aqueduct along the Appian Way, which crossed the Garigliano river here.
The municipality of 19,472 splits between the medieval hilltop village, whose castle once hosted Thomas Aquinas, and the seaside district of Scauri, sandy beaches on the lower Tyrrhenian. Rome and Naples are each a good hour by train: the southern Lazio coast at its most rewarding.
Near Minturno
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
