Welcome to the site Napoliforme

This is the lonely and wild stretch of the Posillipo coast, the legendary land of Greek and Virgilian myths, a collection of tufa caves, inlets, small coves and a beach, a unique setting of sea and slopes of Mediterranean scrub with pines, acanthus and agaves. In the Pausilypon Archaeological Park and Gaiola Underwater Park, the nature reserve of the marine protected area includes the islets of Gaiola, connected by a slender bridge, and the stretch of sea towards the Posillipo promontory, rich in the remains of archaeological structures. Port basins, nymphaeums and fishponds - covered by the sea due to the slow sinking of the coast caused by bradyseism - are part of the Pausilypon, the villa of Publius Vedio Pollione, together with other ancient ruins on the rocks, or partly submerged, that seem to emerge from the sea. The underwater landscape is one of the most beautiful and ever-changing in the Gulf, populated by coralline algae, coloured sponges, sea urchins, starfish, crustaceans, octopus, bream, scorpion fish, cicadas, moray eels and "guarracini".