A walking tour in the beautiful small town fo 𝐒𝐚𝐧 𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐂𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐨, a few kilometers south of Rome, Italy.
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*Some History*
The story of San Felice Circeo immediately begins with the legend of the enchantress Circe told by Homer in the Odyssey.
Legend aside, the history of the inhabitans on the site is much older. In 1939 the remains of the Neanderthal man dated 50,000 years ago were found in the Circeo sea caves.
This discovery was followed by others that demonstrated the presence of Homo Sapiens in the area.
The first news from literary sources began to have in the sixth century BC. and document the presence of a Latin colony in the area; sources confirmed by the remains of a temple and the walls of the ancient city found in Colle Monticchio dating from the same period.
In 491 BC the ancient Circeii people, which were under the control of Rome, were occupied for about a hundred years by the Volsci and then returned to the Romans. The latter installed a second Latin colony there and built the walls of the Acropolis.
At the fall of the Roman Empire the city entered a sad period characterized by barbarian and Saracen raids.
In the thirteenth century Pope Gregory IX ceded the fortress to the Templars to defend the coast from pirate attacks, they remained there for about twenty years and built the Torre dei Templari and the Convent there, buildings still unchanged today for charm and historical importance.
After this brief Templar period, at the end of the XII century, the Castrum passed under the dominion of the Annibaldi, who sold it in 1301 to Pietro Caetani.
The prince had several buildings built, including the Casino di Caccia, the current Villa Bocchi, and the top floor of the baronial palace.
The virtual walk starts just in the vicinity of the walls surrounding the town, and heads over to the main sea-side avenue and castle, to continue along the main strets and inside the old city and its narrow streets..
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🔻 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 🔻
0:00 Drone Footage
1:07 Virtual walking tour starts
4:41 Templars Towers
6:32 Piazza Vittorio Veneto (Main Square)
12:21 Panorama towards the Sea and the Pontine islands
14:31 A curious souvenir in the town - the names of the most famous citizens and their funny nicknames ("the priest", "the small prince", "trout", "the master" among others...)
15:07 main avenue
18:54 Second panorama
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