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Misenus, son of the wind god Aeolus and friend of Hector at Troy, followed Aeneas as a pilot and trumpeter on his long journey across the Mediterranean to the Campanian coast near Baia. His almost ...

The most famous monument in ancient Cumae, from Virgil's Aeneid to the present day, is the cavern of the Cumaean Sibyl. It is a dark and disturbing place with 'a hundred doors' (the side openings t...

Next to the Sybil's cavern, a second tunnel, the Roman Crypta, crosses the tufa bank on which the acropolis of Cumae stands. The 300-metre-long tunnel does not follow a straight path, but bypasses ...

The defensive system of Cumae was strengthened from the 6th century BC by the Greeks, Samnites, Romans and Byzantines, who supplemented the natural defences with fortifications to protect the monum...

The acropolis of Cumae, the heart of the ancient city, is built on two terraces overlooking the Cumaean territory as far as the Silva Gallinara, the ancient holm-oak grove that stretches along the ...

The temple that dominates the upper terrace of the acropolis is traditionally identified as the temple of Jupiter, but new discoveries (particularly inscriptions and votive artefacts referring to t...

Amidst the reeds on the shore of Lake Avernus, in a romantic and mysterious landscape, stands the Temple of Apollo: a large octagonal hall, covered by a monumental dome, which according to legend i...

It is the third largest arena in the Roman world, after the Colosseum in Rome and the amphitheatre of ancient Capua, and a testament to the extraordinary technique achieved by Roman engineering.Loc...

A unique testimony to the port and commercial districts of Puteoli is the Temple of Serapis or 'Serapeo', named after the statue of the Egyptian goddess found during excavations. The structure is a...

Perched on the tuffaceous promontory at the centre of the Gulf of Pozzuoli, it is the acropolis of the ancient city, surrounded on three sides by the sea, and part of the Roman defence system. With...

Pozzuoli's economic importance in the Augustan age encouraged the construction and restoration of public and religious buildings. The marble reconstruction of the Capitolium (a temple dedicated to ...

Few traces remain of the ancient Puteoli wharf, one of the most complex architectural constructions of antiquity that developed into an uninterrupted series of quays and commercial depots along the...

Pirate raids, which from late antiquity to the 17th century continually plagued the coasts of the southern seas, did not spare the island of Procida, causing mourning and extensive damage despite t...

Originally part of Procida, Vivara (from the Latin vivarium, nursery) is connected to the mother island by a footbridge, about 360 metres long. Finds of Mycenaean origin discovered on the island co...