Oasi WWF Lago di Conza
Conza della Campania (AV)
Hidden gemNature
The story
Born from a dam on the Ofanto, the lake is the largest wetland in Campania: from the hides you can watch herons, cormorants and storks along the migration routes.
Hours and prices
Free entry.
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◆ History & archaeologyConza della Campania (antica Compsa)
Conza della Campania (AV)
On the ruins of ancient Compsa, the village abandoned after the earthquake of 1980 is now an archaeological park: the Roman forum resurfaces among the empty houses, and just below the lake of Conza shines.
◆ History & archaeologyParco archeologico di Compsa
Conza della Campania (AV)
Beneath the ruins of the village destroyed by the 1980 earthquake, ancient Compsa has resurfaced, a Roman town on a hill suspended between the Ofanto river and the silence of Irpinia.
- ◆ Villages
Conza della Campania Vecchia
Conza della Campania (AV)
Razed by the 1980 earthquake, old Conza brought to light the ancient Roman Compsa: an archaeological park where the ruins tell of a city lost twice over.
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via Foria
Founded in the Napoleonic age, the botanical garden on via Foria lines up glasshouses, palms and rare species across twelve hectares: a green breath a step away from the traffic.
◆ NaturePedamentina di San Martino
Vomero→centro
A fourteenth-century stairway dropping from the hill of San Martino down to the city: hundreds of steps through vegetable plots, gardens and glimpses of the bay — one of the finest urban paths in Naples.
NatureVilla Comunale
Riviera di Chiaia
The garden stretched out along the sea at Chiaia: avenues of holm oaks, benches and old statues, with the gulf breathing beyond the iron railing.
NatureAcquario Anton Dohrn
Riviera di Chiaia
The oldest aquarium in Europe, opened in 1874 inside the Villa Comunale: historic tanks inhabited only by the fauna of the Gulf of Naples, behind the glass.
NatureSolfatara
Pozzuoli
The ground breathes: hissing fumaroles, mud that boils up and a smell of sulphur reminding you how alive the earth is beneath the Campi Flegrei.
- ◆ Nature
Vigna di San Martino
collina S. Martino
One of the largest urban vineyards in Europe, worked by the Carthusians since the fourteenth century: seven hectares of vines, citrus and olive trees hanging over the bay, a step from the city's chaos.