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Grotta di Tiberio

Name: Grotta di Tiberio
Rating: 2

Recommended by 25 hikers

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Location: Sperlonga, Latina, Lazio, Italy

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1. Grotta di Tiberio – Chapel of San Rocco loop from Sperlonga

11.5km

03:15

230m

Intermediate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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2. Grotta di Tiberio – Grotta di Tiberio loop from Sperlonga

4.67km

01:17

80m

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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3. Torre Truglia – Grotta di Tiberio loop from Sperlonga

5.21km

01:27

90m

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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Michael073

May 21, 2018

This place is absolutely worth a visit. Amazing place especially the cave, but also the museum is worth the 5 EUR per ticket. We also took that place as the starting point for a 2.5 km walk to ancient city of Sperlonga - a wonderful place with lot of good restaurants and bars where you feel a bit set back in time.

Jennifer la tedesca🇩🇪

November 29, 2024

The Grotto of Tiberius is the most spectacular part of the Roman villa of Sperlonga. The enormous natural ravine is preceded by a large rectangular fish pond of sea water that housed an artificial island in the center that served as a summer caenatio, or the place where Tiberius and his court ate in the summer.

The grotto was decorated with marble statues of enormous artistic value dedicated to the saga of Ulysses and sculpted by Greek artists from Rhodes. It is thought that these famous craftsmen stayed in the villa to finish the statues previously sketched in the workshop. The bottom of the grotto was decorated with frescoes and masonry works that divided the room into rooms and alcoves. Near the alcove, the remains of frescoes and decorations created with local shells and the spaces where the beds were probably placed are still visible.

Above the external opening of the grotto there was the statue of a beautiful Ganymede kidnapped by the eagle Zeus. The fish pond communicates with the circular pool in the center of the cave where the sculptural group of the attack on the monster of Scylla, the most majestic of the four, stood out in a scenic position. Then there was the group of the blinding of Polyphemus, that of the abduction of the Palladium and that of Ulysses dragging the body of Achilles.

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1. Grotta di Tiberio – Chapel of San Rocco loop from Sperlonga

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