Camping Golden Garden

About 500 metres from Golden Garden is ancient Minturno, a busy Roman city around the times of Augustus and Caligula. Remains of its aqueduct, amphitheatre, temples and forum can still be seen, along with its later historical sites such as the Middle Ages baronial castle, the cathedral and the Church of St Francis. Less than two kilometres away is the edge of Riviera di Ulisse Regional Park, named after Homer's Odysseus, who moored his boats in the region known these days as the Gulf of Gaeta. As well as the wildlife and marine life, the park is full of ancient and archaeological sites including the Villa of Tiberius at the coastal town of Sperlonga, which has a museum showing the old grotto with groups of sculpture on Odysseus and his travels. Also within easy reach are the famed and volcanic sulphur baths of Suio, around 20 kilometres away, used for millennia for their therapeutic properties.