Nettuno

Nettuno is a town and comune of the Metropolitan City of Rome inside the Lazio vicinity of principal Italy, 60 kilometres south of Rome. An inn town and agricultural center on the Tyrrhenian Sea, it has a population of about 50,000. Its name is perhaps in honour of the Roman god Neptune. According to an idea, the metropolis might be an immediate survival of the Roman Antium, which territory nearly completely corresponded to Nettuno and contemporary Anzio.

Giuseppe Tomassetti taken into consideration Nettuno the actual inheritor and continuer agreement of the historic Antiates. Instead Beatrice Cacciotti doubted approximately an ancient and now not medieval beginning of the town. Nettuno become additionally considered to be the place of the historic Volscian port town of Caenon, which became the nearest port of the metropolis Antium. According to a more latest theory, the city Caenon would be placed on a hill greater east to Nettuno, and the port, might were over the mouth of the river Loricina. In 469BC, the town Caenon became destroyed by way of the Roman consul Titus Numicius Priscus.