Terme di Sinuessa
Mondragone (CE)
Hidden gemIn the water & diving
The story
At the foot of Monte Petrino flow the sulphurous waters the Romans called Aquae Sinuessanae, beside a city largely swallowed by the sea.
More gems in Mondragone
CastlesRocca Montis Dragonis
Mondragone
On Monte Petrino, a ruined medieval stronghold with square and round towers, from which the eye runs from Ischia to the headland of Circeo.
- History & archaeology
Museo del Cane — Foof
Mondragone (CE)
Europe's first museum devoted entirely to the dog: between collars, art and a shelter for strays, it tells the ancient bond between man and his best friend.
- Hiking
Cima del Monte Massico
Mondragone (CE)
From the ridge that divides the Campanian plain from the Gulf of Gaeta, the eye reaches as far as Ischia. On these slopes, legend says, Bacchus disguised as a wayfarer asked old Falernus for hospitality, and to thank him made the vines grow that would yield the wine of emperors.
MuseumsMuseo Archeologico Biagio Greco
Mondragone (CE)
A small provincial museum guarding the fragments of the ager Falernus: votive terracottas, grave goods, the remains brought back up from Sinuessa, the Roman city that today sleeps beneath the sand and the sea.
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.