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"NULLUS
IN ORBE SINUS BAIIS PRAELUCET AMOENIS"
"NO BAY IN THE WORLD SHINES MORE THAN DELIGHTFUL BAIA"
That's what Orazio,
the great poet, would like to write
about Baia
in the first century A.D. and at distance of millennia "the
Phlegraean Fields" keep their splendor unchanged. BAIA
was for the Romans what Capri and
Montecarlo is for us today. It was the site of the Imperial
Palace and had famous
Baths and beatiful Villas
and was a synonimous with idleness and
amusement, culture and politics, love. |
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Present
day BACOLI lays
claim to this ancient site. Its splendid, ancient and modern monuments,
include: the Mirable Swimming Pool,
the Cento Camerelle,
the Castle of Baia and
the Small Vanvitellian
Palace of Fusaro.
MISENO was
the most important military port of CUMA
and was the base of the mighty Imperial
Roman Fleet. Its most important
monuments: the Sacellium of the
Augustali, the Baths,
the Dragonara and
the Theatre.
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CUMA
was founded by the Eubean
colonists in the
VIII century B.C. and was the first "polis"
of the Western
World. It was rich and powerful and gave the "
West chalcidice-cuman alfabet"
which was later called "latin"
Arriving to POZZUOLI
by the sea is an experience full of emotion and charm. First under the Greek
and then the Romans,
it was the main commercial port of the Roman
Empire. The Temple
of Serapide, l'Amphitheatre
of Flavius, the Capitolium
and the Necropolis
are extraordinary monuments illustring the glory of Pozzuoli. |
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