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Sperlonga: history and landscape

Sperlonga has been for years, without a doubt, one of the most famous tourist resorts of the coast of Lazio.

His original country, a small fishing village, around which grew the current concentrically Sperlonga, has a complex history and ancient and in many ways uncertain.

According to some scholars, in fact, in the area on the border with funds there was the legendary Amyclae founded by the Spartans and then subsequently disappeared.

Sperlonga was later important resort for the Romans, who transformed the caves of the coast in places like (hence the Sperlonga name)

The most famous of all was that of Tiberius in speak Suetonius and Tacitus.

The settlement follows the lives of current funds to landowners whose lands belonged for a long time. In 1379 the antipope Clement VII took refuge after the defeat of his faction close to Marino. Finally

Sperlonga was a land of conquest and plunder of Khayr al-Din Barbarossa, said Christian environment Italic Ariadeno Barbarossa, which became after 1533 the undisputed Admiral) of the Ottoman fleet.

In 1536, after a terrifying raid on the Tyrrhenian coast: landings and looting occurred in Cetraro and in some areas of the Gulf of Naples. He landed and placed in Sperlonga fire to the surrounding area and the same city, even tried to kidnap Giulia Colonna, young and beautiful widow of Vespasian Colonna.

This is the Brief History of Sperlonga that with the reconstruction of the eighteenth and nineteenth took its present shape (so-called "turtle").

There are many towers and including "Central Tower", locally called Torre Maggiore, implanted in the sixteenth century and still the "Truglia Tower, built in 1532 on a former Roman tower, is located on the tip of the promontory on which the village stands.

After the destruction of Barbarossa was rebuilt in 1611 and destroyed again in 1613

No less interesting are the churches and between Santa Maria di Spelonca is mentioned as already in existence in 1135. A two aisles, with galleries, subsequently underwent renovations and changes.

back to Roman times just outside the village is the Villa of Tiberius belonged in the first century AD, Emperor Tiberius

The villa consisted of several buildings arranged on terraces facing the sea. The first structures are related to a villa of the late-Republican.

During construction of the coastal road between Terracina and Gaeta in 1957 was discovered a large quantity of marble fragments, for the extraordinary quality of the sculptures and the size of the blocks. The sculptures will be revealed in some original cases of the Hellenistic period are allocated in the magnificent Archaeological Museum built in 1963.

This is a summary memorable Sperlonga center that allows visitors not only a pleasant stay, but also a blast from the past.