In the water & diving
21 places
In the water & divingParco Sommerso di Baia
Bacoli
A Roman city swallowed by the sea through bradyseism: mosaics, columns and statues visited from a glass-bottomed boat or with a mask.
In the water & divingGrotta Azzurra
Anacapri
You enter lying flat in a small rowing boat through a low cleft, and inside the water lights up in a luminous blue that seems to rise from the depths.
In the water & divingVerde
Capri
The water turns emerald green where light filters in through a submerged opening, and at the far end a small pebble beach lies hidden.
In the water & divingGrotta dello Smeraldo
Conca dei Marini (SA)
At Conca dei Marini you descend toward water that filters the light and gives it back emerald green, suspended between stalactites and a submerged presepe (nativity scene).
In the water & divingParco della Gaiola
Napoli (NA)
Below Posillipo, two islets linked by a fragile bridge: the Gaiola marine protected area, with submerged Roman ruins, transparent waters and the whispered fame of a cursed island.
In the water & divingParco Termale Poseidon
Forio (NA)
On the bay of Citara dozens of pools at different temperatures face the sea, among flowering terraces and the sunset that sets the water of Forio ablaze.
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Grotta Bianca
Capri
Pale limestone walls in a two-chambered cavity hollowed out by the sea, once a shelter for boats and a hiding place from pirate raids.
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Meravigliosa
Capri
A stairway carved into the rock leads to a vault thick with stalactites and stalagmites, suspended above the Grotta Bianca and the island's thousand-year-old strata.
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Punta Pizzaco e Solchiaro (snorkeling)
Procida
On the southern side, between the cliffs of Solchiaro and the walls of Pizzaco, clear water and rocky seabeds invite you to swim with a mask, far from the crowds.
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Parco Sommerso di Aenaria
baia di Cartaromana
Beneath the bay of Cartaromana lie the remains of the ancient Roman port of Aenaria: you explore them from a glass-bottomed boat or with a mask, among amphorae and submerged structures.
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Siti diving AMP Regno di Nettuno (Formiche di Vivara, Parete di Sant'Angelo, Scoglio della Nave, Secca del Bell'Ommo, Mezzatorre)
Ischia/Procida
The seabeds of the Regno di Nettuno marine protected area, among the shoals and walls off Vivara and Sant'Angelo, where gorgonians and shoals of fish move through the clear water.
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AMP Castellabate — snorkeling e diving
Castellabate
In the marine protected area the posidonia meadows shelter groupers and sea bream, a transparent seabed to explore with fins on among rocks and submerged caves.
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Baia di Sorgeto
Forio (NA)
On Ischia, where boiling thermal springs gush among the rocks and mingle with the sea, the bay of Sorgeto offers a warm bath even in winter, under the stars.
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Fonte delle Ninfe Nitrodi
Barano d'Ischia (NA)
A garden of springs where waters once dear to Apollo and the nymphs flow, among olive trees and open-air pools, far from the sound of the sea below.
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Terme di Cavascura
Barano d'Ischia (NA)
In a gorge carved into the rock, pools and grottoes used since antiquity: you descend a canyon to plunge into scalding waters gushing from the mountain.
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Parco Termale Negombo
Lacco Ameno (NA)
A botanical garden descending to the bay of San Montano, with thermal pools hidden among rare plants, artworks and the blue of the sea.
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Terme di Villamaina (San Teodoro)
Villamaina (AV)
In the Ansanto valley, where the earth still exhales sulphur, the sulphurous water of San Teodoro springs forth: thermal sources known for centuries, among muds, caves and warm vapours.
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Terme di Sinuessa
Mondragone (CE)
At the foot of Monte Petrino flow the sulphurous waters the Romans called Aquae Sinuessanae, beside a city largely swallowed by the sea.
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Terme di Contursi
Contursi Terme (SA)
Along the Sele flow hot, sulphurous springs, exploited for centuries: steaming pools in the countryside where you soak under the open sky.
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Chianare di Spadera
Forio (NA)
A coast of smooth flagstones and tiny coves below Punta Chiarito, where the tufo (volcanic tuff) splits into natural steps. Just above, archaeologists found a Greek farmstead buried by a landslide in the 6th century BC: the people fled and never came back.
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Sorgenti di Cassano Irpino (Bagno della Regina)
Cassano Irpino (AV)
This is kilometre zero of the Acquedotto Pugliese: from here 1,800 litres a second set off through tunnels to quench the thirst of four regions. The Bagno della Regina takes its name from a Lombard princess who, enchanted by this water, bathed in it.