Nettuno's medieval quarter is a well-kept secret: a ring of wall-houses on the sea, narrow lanes and small squares that weekending Romans have always known. Beside it, the Sangallo fort of 1503, built for the Borgias, still watches the beach. Great history passed twice: with the Allied landing of January 1944 — the American cemetery of Nettuno, nearly eight thousand fallen, is the Italian campaign's most moving memorial — and with Saint Maria Goretti, whose basilica draws pilgrims worldwide.
Cacchione wine, a marina and the sea as a neighbour: Nettuno lives well, all year round.
Near Nettuno
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
