Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Day Excursion to
Anzio
Historic Beachhead
Depart Rome Termini Station
Distance by Train: 35 miles (57 km)
Average Train Time: 1 hour
City Dialing Code: 06
Tourist Information Office: Regione Lazio Azienda Autonoma, Soggiorno e Tur-
ismo, Piazza Pia, 16
Tel: (06) 984 99406; Fax: (06) 984 99473
www.anzioturismo.com
E-mail: info@anzioturismo.com
Hours: June-September: 0900-1300 and 1600-1900 daily. Off-season hours:
0900-1300 and 1530-1800 Monday-Saturday. If the office is closed, directions will
be posted on how to reach another office in the area.
Notes: To get to the tourist office on Pia Square: When leaving the Anzio railway
station, walk downhill along the palm-lined avenue to Cesare Battisti Square. Then
continuing on Via dei Fabbri, you will be in the main square of Anzio, Pia Square,
where you will find the city's tourist information office to the left, near the church.
“Nothing more beautiful, nothing more agreeable, nothing more peaceful,” wrote
Cicero about Anzio. The Roman emperor Nero was born in Anzio. The villa where
he spent his childhood and studied music still stands. Anzio's sandy beach attracted
many important leaders over the centuries, which made it a VIP sanctuary, so to
speak. Roman emperors such as Tiberius, Hadrian, Antoninus, and Commodus
found escape from Rome and their affairs of state in Anzio.
American and British forces stormed ashore at Anzio and nearby Nettuno on
January 22, 1944, to establish a beachhead, which they held until the taking of
Rome on June 4, 1944. The devastated town that endured both the crossfire of the
Germans and the bombardment of the Allied fleet offshore during that time has been
restored completely, but row upon row of white crosses mark the graves in nearby
military cemeteries, where lie 7,862 American and more than 6,000 British troops
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