Inspired by Homer's Odyssey
Circeo Coast · Lazio, Italy

Where the coast
remembers Ulysses.

Between the Tyrrhenian Sea and a promontory that legend gave to Circe, Villa Brando is your point of departure into the oldest travel story ever told.

41.46° N, 12.89° E
Latina, gateway to the Circeo coast
The Land of Circe

A coastline that has always belonged to story.

Myth & Memory

What We Tell You — and What We Don't

Circe Invidiosa, John William Waterhouse, 1892 — public domain
Circe Invidiosa John William Waterhouse, 1892 — Art Gallery of South Australia. Public domain. One of the best-known 19th-century depictions of Circe, painted six centuries after the tradition placing her on this coast had already taken hold.
The Coast, Place by Place

Seven landscapes, one legend.

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The Route

A logbook for two journeys.

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Distances from Villa Brando

The whole coast, within reach.

★ Villa Brando
Also Within Reach

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Begin the Journey

The coast remembers the story.
Villa Brando is where you start.

Location photography via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY / CC BY-SA — verify individual file credits before publishing). "Circe Invidiosa" by J. W. Waterhouse, 1892, public domain.