Instead of Sperlonga
Instead of Sperlonga: coastal towns within 2 hours
Sperlonga is a white town above a beach, an hour and a half from Rome, and in August the whole of Rome knows it.
The Tyrrhenian coast either side, north into the Circeo and south toward the Garigliano, has the same sand with fewer Roman number plates.
Coastal towns in our catalogue within 2 hours of Sperlonga by road, ranked by outside recognition. Sperlonga itself and the other famous places are left out. 8 towns match, and all of them are below.
Instead of Sperlonga
Sperlonga · 3,050 residents · Lazio
- San Felice CirceoLatina
Coastal town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Sperlonga
- 42m by car
- Residents
- 10,137
- When to go
- May–Sep
- SabaudiaLatina
Coastal town · Bandiera Blu
- From Sperlonga
- 1h 7m by car
- Residents
- 19,434
- When to go
- May–Sep
- TerracinaLatina
Coastal town · Bandiera Blu
- From Sperlonga
- 26m by car
- Residents
- 44,720
- When to go
- May–Sep
- GaetaLatina
Coastal town · Bandiera Blu
- From Sperlonga
- 18m by car
- By train
- Reachable
- Residents
- 19,423
- When to go
- May–Sep
- FondiLatina
Coastal town · Bandiera Blu
- From Sperlonga
- 16m by car
- By train
- Reachable
- Residents
- 39,550
- When to go
- May–Sep
The 5 best-recognised of the 8 towns that match. Drive times measured by road from Sperlonga. More of them follow below.
San Felice Circeo
Province: Latina · 100 m
A medieval borgo on the flank of a promontory that Homer made the home of Circe in the Odyssey.
Sabaudia
Province: Latina · 17 m
A rationalist city built in 253 days on drained Pontine marshland, founded 15 April 1934 between Lago di Paola and the Tyrrhenian dunes.
Terracina
Province: Latina · 24 m
The Volscian Anxur, where a temple to Jupiter sits above a port cut through stone.
Gaeta
Province: Latina · 2 m
The promontory port where a Bourbon kingdom fell in February 1861 and the south of Italy stopped existing as a state.
Fondi
Province: Latina · 9 m
The plain town between the Ausoni and Aurunci mountains where the Caetani built a castle in the middle of farmland instead of on a hill.
Pozzuoli
Province: Napoli · 28 m
A Roman port on a volcanic caldera, the Greek Dicearchia and the Roman Puteoli, where a market's columns first proved that the ground itself rises and falls.
Minturno
Province: Latina · 140 m
A coastal comune at the mouth of the Garigliano, built on the Roman colony of Minturnae.
Bacoli
Province: Napoli · 30 m
A town twenty kilometers west of Napoli, the Roman Bauli, where a cistern fed the imperial fleet at Miseno.
Drive times measured by road from Sperlonga. A town with no time shown is one the router could not reach, usually because it is served by ferry. How this data is built.