Origins of the name:
The origins of Gaeta's name (Latin: Caieta, Greek: Kaièta, Καιέτα) are still shrouded in legend:
Strabo indicated its origin from the term Gaetas used by Laconian fishermen to refer to the site, with clear reference to the wide inlet of its gulf.
Diodorus Siculus linked these lands to the myth of the Argonauts by deriving the city's name from Aietes, mythical father of Medea (Circe's daughter), the sorceress in love with Jason.
Virgil, in the Aeneid found its origin in the name of Aeneas's nurse, Caieta, buried by the Trojan hero at that site during his journey to the Latian coast.
Dante Alighieri, as if to signify the historicity of the Aeneid, confirmed the event.Also known as the city of a hundred churches.
Also known as the city of a hundred churches.
