Every year in mid-August, the Festa del Mare is celebrated in Santa Marinella, a food and wine event with religious roots such as the afternoon procession of boats in front of the coast and an evening mass at the port. The festival continues all day and ends with a fish Read more…
On the first Sunday of July in Santa Marinella, the 9 districts of the town compete in the original Palio dell’Autopedale, a special race for pedal cars made of wood and papier mache. Beside the race, along 4 km of the coast of Santa Marinella on the Via Aurelia, allegorical Read more…
The first feast of Santa Marinella is that of the ‘blessing of the animals’ dedicated to Saint Anthony and which is held on Sunday near January 17, the day dedicated to the saint. On this date in the Quartaccia district, tastings and competitions are organized while the blessing is held Read more…
The wine route of the Etruscan Roman Lands promotes the territory where the vines of Cerveteri DOC and Tarquinia DOC and the IGT Costa Etrusco Romana are grown. The Etruscan-Roman denomination refers to the importance that the cultivation of vines has had since the Etruscan period and frescoes of vine Read more…
The sea of Santa Marinella is characterized by a unique clarity which over the years has protected the seabed rich in a particular Mediterranean flora and fauna especially in the Pierucci Wall which is almost a km long. Here you can find rocks and coves where many species of fish Read more…
The coast of Santa Marinella and in particular Punta Banzai is one of the places most appreciated by wave surfers for the quality of the waves that are created. It is one of the few places near Rome where surfers from all over Europe meet and national and international competitions Read more…
The distance between the rocky beaches north of Santa Marinella and the sandy beaches south of Santa Teresa includes 24 km of coastline. Sandy beaches run along one of the clearest seas north of Rome: for this reason it is called ‘the Pearl of the Tyrrhenian Sea’ and is much Read more…
Castrum Novum is an ancient Roman fortified centre founded in 264 BC. when Rome was preparing more and more to become a maritime power and to clash with Carthage. For this reason, before the First Punic War, it set up a series of ports and fortresses to protect them in Read more…
Via Aurelia was an important Roman road that connected Rome with Cerveteri and Pyrgi, passing along the Tyrrhenian coast. The road was then extended to Pisa and then to Marseille, France by the emperor Augustus who called it the Via Julia Augusta. The first stretch up to Cerveteri dates back Read more…
In the stretch of sea in front of Punta della Vipera you can recognize the remains of a system of tanks that made up a large fishpond, that is an area where fish were bred. The pools are all inter-communicating and the complex has the dimensions of about 48 meters Read more…
