Ponte di Annibale e terme di Triflisco
Bellona (CE)
KnownIn the water & diving
The story
Here the Volturno narrows between the rocks, and memory says that Hannibal threw a bridge across to move his army over, the same army that loosed a herd of oxen with blazing horns against the Romans. Of the bridge only a few teeth of stone remain in the green water.
Access
FREE, riverbank reachable on foot from Triflisco
More gems in Bellona
- Sacred art
Mausoleo Ossario dei 54 Martiri di Bellona
Bellona (CE)
On 7 October 1943 the Germans picked 54 men inside the church and shot them on the edge of a tufo (volcanic tuff) quarry twenty-five metres deep, then brought the earth down over the bodies with hand grenades. At the bottom of the quarry, since 1945, a monument carries their names.
- History & archaeology
Cammarelle delle Fate (criptoportico romano)
Bellona (CE)
Twenty-two interconnected cisterns dug at the foot of the hill: the people, who could no longer read the stones, swore they were the chambers of the fairies. They were instead the belly of a Roman villa of the 2nd century BC.
More gems: In the water & diving
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 & diving
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.
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 & diving
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.
- In the water & diving
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.