Miseno is well-known because of its beaches, but an accurate eyes sees more.
It is the result of the eternal battle between fire and water raging in the Phlegraean Fields, where the violence of the nature leaves a beauty that goes beyond the dreams. The promontory that overlooks the sea, Cape Miseno, is one of the most ancient volcanos in the Phlegraean Fields.
Virgil said it was erected by Aeneas as a grave for Misenum, his bugler, dead because he dared to challenge Triton, son of Poseidon, god of the sea.
In the north there’s Miseno Lake, a salted water lagoon separated by the sea by a sandy strip of land, and surrounded by hills.
On the east side of the lake there’s a leftover volcano, demolished and submerged by the sea. Here there’s a little island born in the 1960’s, when a violent storm destroyed the fragile strip of land that connected it to the land. Over the beach, on the west side, rises the cliff of Torrefumo, on which basis there’s a salted water lake, and where it is possible to distinguish various eruptions in the Phlegraean Fields, making its stratigraphy.