Casina Vanvitelliana

Casina Vanvitelliana

The domination of Borbone dinasty in the Kingdom of Two Sicilies and in the whole Southern Italy has left the sign also on the Phlegraean Fields. One of the buildings more typical of the place is the Casina Vanvitelliana: it allows both Flegrean people and visitors to...

Cumae

Cumae

Strangely, the history of this place since its origins up to 530 B.C. was written taking account only of the literary sources. But we invite you to learn something on the early Cumae by the archaeology: it will be surprising discover how the reality can be more...

Antoninus Pius’ Stadium

Antoninus Pius’ Stadium

The stadium was created to host plays that today we would call Athletics Plays, and it is mandatory to distinguish it from the circus, where took place equestrian competitions. Emperor Antoninus Pius, about 140 a.D. commanded to build this stadium in Pozzuoli in honor...

Flavian Amphitheater

Flavian Amphitheater

Flavian Amphitheater is one of two Roman Amphitheaters in Pozzuoli, built in the second half of I century a.D. The Amphitheater of Pozzuoli, built in the first century a.D. by the same architects and with the same materials of Colosseum, is the third in size in Italy,...

Castle of Baia

Castle of Baia

The building of the Aragonese Castle started in 1493/94, wanted by Alfonso of Aragon to fortify the Gulf of Pozzuoli against possible Saracen raids. It was completely modified by the Spanish, thanks to new military concepts in the field of fortifications, and for...

Temple of Serapis

Temple of Serapis

Temple of Serapis, is so wrongly-called the quadrangular Roman structure brought to light in the 1750. At the time the three central columns emerged from the ground-level for some meters, and anyone knew there had to be something very ancient. The finding of god...

Rione Terra

Rione Terra

The little promontory rounded by the sea, before being the Rione Terra, was the Acropolis of the “colony by Roman law” called Puteoli. For the Romans the word Acropolis meant something closer to our modern definition of city or management center, instead of the Greek...