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Pozzuoli is one of the most fascinating archeological area in the world.
Main port of the region in Roman times, the city revealed a surprising “underground Pompeii” with the escavations in the Rione Terra.
Pozzuoli is located in a volcanic area, the Phlegrean Fields (the burning fields), which includes a still active volcano, the Solfatara.
At the Solfatara, near Pozzuoli, you can see the inside of a crater with boiling lava, full of its vapours and steaming muds
Born 4000 years ago almost in the exact centre of the Phlegrean Fields, the Solfatara presents itself lively with geysers, sources of gases, mineral water springs and boiling mud. The biggest geyser is called “Big Mouth”, a natural source of pressured water vapour. It shoots out at 160°C and contains a mixture of gases with a peculiar “rotten egg” smell.
The Vulcano Solfatara is the epicentre of the cyclic phenomenon of the rising and lowering of the ground level known as “BRADISISM”.
It is the proof of the lively commerce conducted in Pozzuoli (I-II sec.BC).Indeed, the so-called temple was a food market, a “Macellum”.
For a long time the Averno lake was considered the entrance of the hell, as Virgil tells us in the beginning of the Eneide. The identification of this lake as the main door of the hell is due to its origins: The Averno lake is in the mouth of an inactive volcano: in the past, thanks to the volcanic exhalations, the birds which flew over the lake died instantaneously. That’s why the ancient Romans used to call it “Aornon”, which means “place without birds”. For this reason, Virgil thought it was a demoniac place, point of connection between the land of the living and the land of the dead.
The Amphitheatre is the third largest in the world.Its functional architecture is an excellent example of the exceptional technological levels reached in that era.
