Anzio.

This is in the Chapel where they listed all the names of the soldiers that died during WWII at the Battle of Anzio.

We headed up to the beach town of Anzio last Friday and it was a really nice day trip.  The town is the site Operation Shingle during WWII which was an allied forces shore landing on January 22, 1944 and also has lots of Roman history.  We first went to the American cemetery, which we were surprised to find out is almost as large as the cemetery in Normandy.  Then we had a nice lunch outside before heading to some other sites in the town.  

Brian had done lots of research on things to do and we headed to the Roman villa ruins, which included the villa for Emperor Nero, a wildlife preserve and hike that ended at some additional ruins and the beach, and the beachhead museum.  Unfortunately, we were there in the middle of the day and this town runs by "standard" Italian hours, so everything was closed for at least 3 hours in the middle of the day, which was right when we wanted to go to see everything! We drove to each site with the same outcome - closed for at least 2.5 more hours from when we were there.  Soooo, with Brian discouraged, we headed to the beach.  No luck again!  The beaches that were accessible to where we were are all privately owned by the local hotels, so available to hotel guests only.  We can say that we've been to Anzio, but we might head up there again sometime to actually see the things that Brian really wants to see : )