In 1957, while widening the coast road, workers and archaeologists found in Tiberius's grotto the fragments of colossal sculpture groups: the blinding of Polyphemus, Scylla, a marble Odyssey the emperor wanted in his seaside villa. Sperlonga's museum recomposes them beside the grotto: unique in the world.
Above, the white village climbs its spur with lanes, arches and stairways of Tyrrhenian Greece: among Italy's most beautiful, its beaches collecting Blue Flags below. Rome and Naples are equidistant: the perfect escape of those in the know.
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