Cave is a town and comune in the Latium region of Italy, 42 kilometres (26 mi) southeast of Rome.

[3] The town was mentioned first in 998 AD, and was later a fief of the Colonna family.

In 1482 it was besieged by Pope Sixtus IV and obliged to surrender.

It is especially known for the Treaty of Cave, signed on 12 September 1557 by plenipotentiaries of Pope Paul IV and Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, the Spanish viceroy of Naples.

[4] It counts the hamlets (frazioni) of Collepalme and San Bartolomeo.