Gaeta

Gaeta is a beautiful city with a historic center, beautiful natural surroundings and a fantastic sandy beach with golden sand and clear blue water.
It's a great place for a few days on the coast and one of the best beaches near Rome, even just for a day out of town.

Churches of Gaeta

Gaeta is known as the city of 100 churches and indeed Gaeta has several more churches and some of them are worth seeing.
Chiesa dell’Annunziata – Originally a Gothic church, it is now mostly Baroque and has important art inside.
Chiesa di San Giovanni al Mare - One of the oldest churches in Gaeta, this Byzantine style church sets it apart from the rest of the architecture in the area and has a magnificent medieval dome with Arabic decoration.
Gaeta Duomo - The Gaeta Duomo is dedicated to the patron saints of Gaeta, Maria Assunta in Chielo and SS. Erasmus and Marciano.
The church has beautiful art inside and also has a beautiful Norman bell tower that is one of Gaeta's most recognizable landmarks.

The best beaches of Gaeta

Serapo Beach – large, soft and sandy, it is the main beach of Gaeta, well equipped with beach clubs and restaurants.

• Spiaggia di Fontania is a small sandy beach with the ruins of a Roman villa that originally belonged to and is close to a popular diving spot
• Spiaggia San Vito is another great sandy beach with a slowly eroding coastline
• Spiaggia 40 remi - a small beach that can only be reached by boat, got its name from "40 oars".
• Spiaggia Ariana is a small but beautiful sandy beach near the city center.
• Spiaggia Sant'Agostino is another sandy beach overlooking a rock popular with rock climbers.