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pozzuoli - archaeological/historic/landscape -
Pozzuoli is the main city of the Campi Flegrei. It was built in 530 b. C. by some refugees came from the island of Samo and was called by them Dicearchia, that means “place of good government”. Three centuries after, this Greek colony was conquered by the Romans and... |
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solfatara - landscape -
The Solfatara is a volcanic crater born after an eruption of about 5.000 years ago. It belongs to a kind of eruptive activity called “monogenica”, that is to say produced by a unique volcanic event. Though this volcano is not longer fed with magma, it presents a lot variou... |
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the temple of serapis - -
The Temple of Serapis, so-called for the finding of a statue of the Egyptian god Serapis, is in reality the central structure of the Roman market (Macellum), built between the I and the II century near the harbour of Pozzuoli. This was the place where the food was trade... |
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Flavian Amphitheatre - archaeological -
The Roman Amphitheatre in Pozzuoli, begun under the Emperor Nerone and finished under Vespasiano in 79 a. C. (for this reason it is also called Neron-Flavian amphitheatre), is the third amphitheatre of the Roman world for its size, after those ones of Colosseo and Capua. It was reali... |
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rione terra - archaeological -
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 o... |
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cuma - archaeological -
Welcome to Cuma! The first Greek colony in the western world. It is one of the most suggestive site in the Campi Flegrei, ever since linked to the myth of Virgilio and the sibyl. It was the old landing place of the Calcidesi, colonists who sailed off from this place to found Parterno... |
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the lake averno - archaeological/landscape -
The place that Romans considered to be the entrance to the Hades, is now a crater lake of small size. The sulphur exhalations, characteristic of the Campi Flegrei, made this place dreaded and consecrated it to the netherworl... |
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lake lucrino and monte nuovo - landscape -
The lake Lucrino, so called after the profits made by breeding mussels, is a beautiful mirror of water which runs between the lake Averno and the sea, not that far from punta Epitaffio. On the internal side, along the slopes of Tritoli hill are placed the fumes of Nerone, close to the place where the Roman emperor wa... |
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the sepulchral areas of pozzuoli and quarto - archaeological -
The sepulchral areas of the Roman towns were generally situated on the outskirts or along the main streets which led to the centre of the town. Pozzuoli follows the same rules. Recent excavations brought to the light several necropolis. One of them is situated at Via Celle in the upp... |
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litaernum and lake patria - archaeological/landscape -
Not that far from the north side of Cuma, near the lake Patria, there are the remains of Liternum founded by the Cumans in 194 B.C.
It was in this place that after the second Punic war, Publio Cornelio Scipione and three-hundred men took refuge. The lake’s name itself re... |
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