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Extract from the Gaeta Travel Guides:
GAETA
lords over the broad sweep of bay from its high, castle-topped headland, an appealing place at first sight (especially from the southern side), untidily piled up onto the pinnacle of its defensive rock. The fortress here was impregnable: it resisted Gothic and Saracen invaders and the town flourished under the Normans, some of its architecture dating back to that time - and earlier. The tiny church of
San Giovanni al Mare
(check with tourist office for opening times) by the water, hails from the tenth century; and on the summit of Monte Orlando, now a park, there's the classical tomb of one
Munatius Plancus...
read the whole Gaeta Travel Guides...
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