Gaeta (LT)

2018

Gaeta is an Italian town of 20 545 inhabitants in the province of Latina in southern Lazio, belonging to the historical-geographical region of the Terra di Lavoro. It rises in the homonymous gulf on the Tyrrhenian Sea and is about 90 km from Naples and 120 km from Rome. The Garigliano and Volturno rivers flow into the Gulf of Gaeta, which extends from the Circeo promontory to Capo Miseno.

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