Naples - Naples, Pompeii and the Amalfi Coast - page 137

5 Monte Nuovo C1

6 Museo Archeologico dei Campi Flegrei C2

7 Parco Virgiliano F3

8 Piscina Mirabilis C3

9 Scavi Archeologici di Cuma B1

10 Solfatara Crater E2

11 Tempio di Serapide D2

Activities, Courses & Tours

12 Edenlandia F2

13 Terme Stufe di Nerone C2

Eating

14 Da Cicciotto F3

15 Da Giona C4

16 Exytus Caffè D2

Entertainment

17 Arenile Reload F2

18 Stadio San Paolo F2

19 Teatro Palapartenope F2

Shopping

Cartolibreria '900 (see 11)

POZZUOLI & SURROUNDS
Founded around 530 BC by political exiles from the Aegean island of Samos, Pozzuoli
(ancient Dikaiarchia) came into its own under the Romans, who in 194 BC colonised it,
renamed it Puteoli (Little Wells), and turned it into a major port. It was here that St Paul is
said to have landed in AD 61, that San Gennaro was beheaded and that screen goddess
Sophia Loren spent her childhood. A bout of bradyseism (the slow upward and downward
movement of the earth's crust) saw Pozzuoli's seabed rise 1.85m between 1982 and 1984,
rendering its harbour too shallow for large vessels.
Indeed, geological curiosities surround the town, from the sizzling Solfatara Crater (
Click here ) 1.2km to the east, to novice mountain Monte Nuovo 3km to the west.