| Ladispoli occupies the area existed the ancient Alsium, the port of the Etruscan city of Cerveteri and later a Roman colony cited by Cicero.
Alsium was destroyed in the 6th century AD, during the Gothic War, by the Ostrogoths led by Totila. Later a castle, named Palo, was built in the area: it was a fief of the Orsini and, from 1693, of the Odescalchi family.
Modern Ladispoli was founded in 1888 by Ladislao Odescalchi, whom its name stems from.
Main sights
Castello di Palo
The castle was a fief of Palo Orsini and was purchased in 1693 by Odescalchi; then went for sale to the Duke of Genoa Grillo and the Marquis Carlo Loffredo of Treviso, to return to the Odescalchi in 1870.
Etruscan necropolis
"Monteroni" (a mound tombs of the seventh and fifth centuries BC, now mostly disappeared) and "Vaccina" (comprising about 60 tombs carved in the rock (seventh-sixth century BC)
Roman villas
"Villa di Pompeo" in the hamlet of Marina di San Nicola, the "Villa della Posta Vecchia" located at the forest of Palo, the "villa in Marina di Palo" in which to find the remains of a tank and a funerary monument, but also other less conspicuous villas as the "house of Grottacce", and the villa of "Vaccina"
Castellaccio of Monteroni
The Castellaccio of Monteroni is a rare example of a fortified farmhouse built in XIV century on the path to the Via Aurelia.
Torre Flavia
The construction of the sixteenth century was restored by Cardinal Flavio Orsini. La Torre Flavia was used for sighting and belonged to the defensive system against the Saracens comprising 61 towers desired by the government Papal all along the coast of Lazio. Damaged by bombing during World War II and sunk in the sea because of erosion of the coast, was protected by a stone dam.
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