The best walks and hikes around Nettuno

The Granieri Pond is of artificial origin inside the Bosco di Foglino, located in the municipality of Nettuno and is a small oasis where you can walk admiring different species of free flora and fauna, including ducks, geese, nutria, aquatic turtles, carp, catfish, amphibians and insects of all kinds. It is possible to rent barbecues and practice sport fishing. There is also a refreshment area with a bar, chairs, tables and an equipped children's area, albeit of modest pretensions.

https://www.comune.nettuno.roma.it/pagina678_forte-sangallo.html#_=_ Today it houses the Museo dello Sbarco Alleato (Museum of the Allied Landings)

a beautiful place under the villa of nerone

Under the Imperial Villa of Nero as well as adjacent to "Il Turcotto", one of the most beautiful and most popular beaches in all of Anzio, there are the warehouses of the imposing Villa Imperiale which, over the centuries, have been excavated by the erosion of the water and wind, assuming the particular shape of "Caves", giving the name to the place. Despite the neglect of man and time, Nero's caves do not lose their charm and in the summer, between a dip in the sea and a walk on the beach, you can still admire their eternal beauty.

here you can see a statue of the emperor Nero

Torre Astura can be reached from the "Torre Astura" car park, note: the car park is open only in July and August and on weekends in September

The Bosco di Foglino located in the Municipality of Nettuno, has an area of about 550 hectares, and is made up of a mixed deciduous oak forest, dominated by Quercus cerris and Quercus frainetto. It is a magnificent area, a remnant of the marshy area reclaimed during the Mussolini period. The pool found along the paths is a truly magical place in all seasons. To be seen!

The Roman Astura was a landing place at the mouth of the Astura river and seat of Roman villas as early as the 1st century BC. One of these was by Cicero, and Astura was the scene of the last phases of his useless flight from Marcus Antonio. On the site, between the end of the Republic and the beginning of the Imperial age, a villa was built partly on the mainland and partly on an artificial island, equipped with a large fish pond, the remains of which are still partly visible. Starting from the Roman age, Astura represented the extension and the eastern border of the colony of Antium (Anzio) and for its amenities it was a place much loved by the Roman nobles who chose it to build their villae d’otium. Received around 1140 to Tolomeo dei Conti di Tuscolo for having usurped it from the monastery of Sant'Alessio all'Aventino, in 1193 the site came into the possession of the Frangipane, who to protect themselves from the Saracens built a maritime fortress with a pentagonal tower. surrounded by water and connected to the mainland by a brick arched bridge. In 1268 Corradino di Svevia, defeated near Tagliacozzo, took refuge in Astura in the tower of the same name, but Giovanni Frangipane, lord of this land, handed him over to Charles of Anjou, king of Naples, so that he was beheaded in Campo Moricino, the current market square in Naples. In 1426, after having been a fief of the Caetani and the Orsini, the fortress passed under the Colonna family who restructured it, giving it its current appearance, and sold it in 1594 to Clement VIII Aldobrandini. From these, when the Aldobrandini family died out, it passed to the Borghese family, from whom it was sold to the municipality of Nettuno in the seventies of the twentieth century.