Rocca San Felice
4 places
- Nature & hiking
Mefite d'Ansanto
Rocca San Felice
A small lake boiling with gas and sulphur in a lifeless hollow: the ancients worshipped the goddess Mefite here, and Virgil imagined a gateway to the underworld.
VillagesRocca San Felice borgo
Rocca San Felice (AV)
Beneath the ruins of the medieval castle the borgo (old village) huddles in stone and steep alleys, not far from the fumes of the Mefite: here legend borders on sulphur.
- Nature & hiking
Mefite della Valle d'Ansanto
Rocca San Felice (AV)
In inland Irpinia a sulphurous pool bubbles with toxic fumes: the ancients worshipped the goddess Mefite here and imagined a mouth of the underworld, among yellow vapours and barren earth.
- Villages
Rocca San Felice
Rocca San Felice (AV)
Rocca San Felice gathers its houses around a ruined castle, not far from the Mefite, the sulphurous pool the ancients believed to be a threshold of the underworld.