Bacoli
10 places
History & archaeologyAntro della Sibilla
Bacoli
A long trapezoidal corridor carved into the tufo (volcanic tuff), cut by blades of light, where Virgil imagined the Sibyl prophesying among the shadows of the rock.
History & archaeologyParco di Cuma
Bacoli
The oldest Greek colony in Italy, with the temples of Apollo and Jupiter stretched across the acropolis between pines and sea, where history begins in silence.
History & archaeologyCento Camerelle
Bacoli
A labyrinth of cisterns on two levels dug into the tufo (volcanic tuff), also called Carceri di Nerone, where Roman water ran beneath a villa facing the gulf.
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.
History & archaeologyTerme di Baia e Castello Aragonese (Museo Campi Flegrei)
Bacoli
Terraces of imperial baths descending towards the sea, and above them the Castello Aragonese guards the statues brought back up from the sunken Baia.
- History & archaeology
Tomba di Agrippina
Bacoli
Not a tomb at all but the remains of a small Roman theatre by the sea, tied by legend to Agrippina, mother of Nero, killed at Bauli.
- Castles
Castello di Baia
Bacoli (NA)
On the high promontory sheer above the gulf, the Aragonese castle guards the statues resurfaced from the submerged Roman city of the Campi Flegrei.
History & archaeologyPiscina Mirabilis
Bacoli (NA)
At Bacoli, forty-eight pillars hold up the vault of a Roman cistern dug into the tufo (volcanic tuff): the largest ever built, an underground cathedral that once quenched the Misenum fleet.
Views & panoramasFaro di Capo Miseno
Bacoli (NA)
At the mouth of the Campi Flegrei, the headland that was the base of the Roman fleet closes the gulf with a lighthouse overlooking Procida, Ischia and the sea of Miseno.
- History & archaeology
Parco Archeologico di Cuma e Antro della Sibilla
Bacoli (NA)
In the oldest Greek colony of the West you walk the long trapezoidal gallery carved into the tufo (volcanic tuff), the Antro della Sibilla, where according to Virgil the prophetess delivered her oracles.