pozzuoli e cumarione terra type:archaeological interest:
If there are scarce attestations of the Greek period of Pozzuoli, many are instead those of the Roman period and the Rione Terra, together with the Flavian amphitheatre and the Temple of Serapis, is an important proof. The name of this place, that in ancient times was the acropolis of the city, calls to mind the “walled-in earth”” of the medieval period, when Pozzuoli was just a fishing village. Preserved by rubbles, this place presents a street plant divided in north-south cross-streets called “cardini” and east-west cross-streets called “decumani”. Here it was found a Lararium, that is to say a shrine to the Lar Familiaris, painted with the images of lucky snakes and of the twelve deities of the Olimpo. Moreover it was also found a pistrinum, that is to say a place where the grain was grinded, some horrea (stores), workshops, taverns and the so-called ergastula, nether places that hosted the slaves. But the most important building of Rione Terra is the Capitolium, the place of cult wrongly considered the Temple of Augusto in the past. Become a Christian place of cult, in fact in the half of the 17th century it was built the cathedral dome dedicated to Saint Proculus, the Roman Temple is now recognizable again after the fire of 1964 that destroyed the baroque “overlaps” wanted by the bishop Martin de Leòn y Càrdenas. Other important buildings of Rione Terra are Chapel of Cioffis, dating at the 12th century, the Nobles’Seat, and the churches of San Celso and San Liborio.
Rione Terra Largo Sedile di porto - Pozzuoli Ph. 06.39967050; 848.800288 Saturday and Sunday 9.00/19.00 Full ticket € 4,50; citizens 6/25 years old € 3,50; under 6 € 1,50; reduced with campania>artecard
