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The Astura Palace Hotel, a brand new 4-star property in the heart of the city of Nettuno, is located right beside the sea overlooking the tourist harbor, and is the ideal way to combine a holiday break with professional commitments. The hotel has an arrangement with a local beach which is a mere 100 metres away and which provides sun umbrellas and sun beds and has a kid*s club. Sailing and windsurfing courses are also available. The elegantly-furnished 49 rooms and 8 apartments all have air conditioning,TV-Sat, Films on-demand, Sky Cinema and Sky Sport, Adsl Internet access, digital safe, electronic keys, direct telephone lines and mini-bar, creating a harmonious and tranquil atmosphere for guests. We also have rooms for handicapped guests and non-smokers.
Areas Served:
Transfers to and from Fiumicino and Ciampino airports are by private car. The greater part of the persons who visit the city of Nettuno remains amazed from this wonderful place. The colors and The atmosphere call beautiful moments and the always mild
Restaurant:
Restaurant / Dining Information: The *Belvedere* Restaurant, on the 5th-floor roof, there are wonderful views of the sea, and this venue is the ideal choice for special events. Particular attention is given to the cuisine which is at the highest levels of Italian gastronomy.
Recreation:
Recreation Information: The American Bar offers a wide selection of cocktails in an elegant and reserved setting.
Attractions: - Area Attractions: Astura Tower Astura is an immense archaeological area composed from the Castle and the Pentagonal Tower that lays on the rests of a ancient roman villa, now a days used as a summer stay piace and port both marine and of land. In the eleventh century ave found in Astura a monastero *kind of ancient church*, but in 1193 was passeri to Frangipane that built up the tower and turned fit finto an important point of defence of the coast, beyond a port of trades, in order to offer shelter to a small village. The tower and the castle are situateti on the rests of an ancient roman fish market, which is still visible today. Sanctuary The Sanctuary of Ours Lady of Thanks and Saint Maria Coretti rises where once was the little church of Saint Annunziata, also called the church of Saint Rocco. The tradition says that the *effige* of Mary *Our Lady of Thanks* reached this piace in 1532. Some sailors directed towards Naples loaded the statue of Mary on their ship, in the attempt to avoid the destruction of it. When, off the coast of Neptune, a storm sank the boat. The statue was recovered on the now a day disappeared Loricina river, where the sailors, in the impossibility to get it back on the sea, collected the statue and gave it to the priests of the little church not far from there. Middle-age Village Neptune rises on the ruins of the ancient Antium, a Volsci tribe town founded between IX and VIII century b.c. Neptune takes the nome from an ancient tempie dedicated to the God of the sea, where today is the Church of Saint Giovanni, in the center of the medieval village. Submitted by the Romans it was erected, thanks to the nature and to its climate, to a privileged location of fun and holiday. With the end of the Roman Empire, Neptune passed by hand to hand through severai noble roman families, that they gradually transformed in a fortified city, closing it within the castle (the medieval village). Later Neptune became a pillar of the defensive system of the Papal State, a fundamental element above ali in the protection of the incursions of the Arabs from the sea. American World II War Cemetery The American cemetery of Nettuno was born as a temporary war cemetery two days after the allied disembarkation in Anzio and Nettuno during World War II, for the fallen soldiers in the battles from Sicily to Rome. Since 1956 it has become a permanent cemetery and its m
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