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Circeo Yacht Vela Club, San Felice Circeo
Circeo Yacht Vela Club was established in 1978 to provide sailing to local young people. Operating from a man-made boat harbour, nestled below Circeo, this will be an idyllic venue to run the IFDS Single Person Dinghy World Championship in 2005.
Chairman of the Organising Committee, Luigi Zambon invites you to experience Sabaudia Etica.
As a sailing venue San Felice Circeo is very appealing as it is on the Mediterranean with good winds and a very moderate climate. Neighbouring, Sabaudia is a tourist town about 100km south of Rome. Circeo is a small mountain, a huge rock which was transported to the coast by a glacier. To its north and south are a string of coastal lakes.
Circeo is about 2km wide and 1000ft high with lighthouse and village on its north and seaward side, really beautiful.
San Felice Circeo is a tourist village on the other (southern) side of the mountain from Sabaudia. Sabaudia is on the north side of Circeo, its lake is connected to the Mediterranean by a 300m long Roman canal.
Circe - the Black Sorcerous
The real delight of Circeo are the rocks which face the crystal clear sea and the forty-three caves including that of the Sorceress Circe, which according to legend and Homer's "Illiad", was the home of the immortal Circe, who transformed Ulysses' men into swine. Circe was descended from divine parents, her father being Helios, the god of the Sun. Circe is called a witch, a goddess or enchantress. Read more about Circe.
From the sea, the promontory really looks like a magic island, especially in the warm summer mornings, when its peak is covered by amazing haze or when the wind brings a dense sea fog and it seems like Circe will soon appear.
Knights Templar
The village of San Felice Circeo is steeped in history. The ancient village of Circeii was built in the 7th century B.C. In 393 B.C. it became a Roman colony which fought against Rome in the Social Wars. During Medieval times the old village belonged to the Knights Templar. Enclosed by wall,s rebuilt many times through centuries, the old village has a medieval tower that belonged to the Knights.
The Templar Knights were a monastic military order formed in 1112, at the end of the First Crusade with the mandate of protecting Christian pilgrims on route to the Holy Land. In this sense they were the first of the Warrior Monks. The Templars fought along side King Richard I (Richard The Lion Hearted) and other Crusaders in the battles for the Holy Lands.
Over
the centuries, as the Kinghts Templar became more powerful, they were
persecuted, burned at the stack. Eventually they concealed themselves
under the name of Brethren Masons. This name, "Freres Maçons"
in French, adopted by way of secret reference to the Builders of the Second
Temple, was corrupted in English into Free-Masons. The Knights Templar
therefore play strongly in both the ritual and foundation of various branches
of modern Freemasonry. Read more about the Templar
Knights
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