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Regions in Italy : Region Campania : Province Napoli >  Comune Pozzuoli

INFO: Altitude: 26 m a.s.l * Population: ca. 80,000 inhabitants -- Zip/postal code: 80078 * Phone Area Code: 081 Frazioni & Località: Arco Felice, Lucrino History Puteoli was an Italian city of Roman times on the coast of Campania, on the north shore of a bay running north from the Bay of Naples. The Roman colony there was established in 194 BC. Pozzuoli was the great emporium for the Alexandrian grain ships. The apostle Paul is traditionally supposed having landed here on his way to Rome, from which it was distant 170 miles. Here he would have tarried for seven days (Acts 28:13, 14) and with his companions began their journey, by the "Appian Way", to Rome. Puteoli was the location for a spectacular stunt (in 37 AD) by the eccentric Caligula, who on becoming Emperor ordered a temporary floating bridge to built using ships as pontoons, stretching for over two miles from the town to the famous neigboring resort of Baiae, across which he proceeded to ride his horse, in defiance of an astrologer's prediction that he had "no more chance of becoming Emperor than of riding a horse across the Gulf of Baiae". [the text above is derived from Wikipedia and is subject to the GNU licence] WHAT TO SEE The remains of the huge amphitheatre Neroniano - Flavio, begun under Nero and completed by Vespasianus ( 69-79 A.D. ), the third largest in Italy, 149 mt long and 116 mt wide, could accomodate up to 20,000 spectators. The well-preserved underground structures can offer an idea of the complicated mechanism required for the gladiators and caged wild beasts. The Sanctuary of San Gennaro, erected on the spot where Gennaro, bishop of Benevento, suffered martyrdom; of the early basilica of the 6th century only the altar is left, which popular devotion believes was the stone on which the Saint was beheaded. The eruption ot the Solfatara volcano in 1198 destroyed the early temple and the building was restored several times after recurring earthquakes and the other terrible eruption of 1538, when it was rebuilt in the present shape on a design by architect Benvenuto Tortelli. the Solfatara volcano, with a crater of 770 m., formed 4000 years ago and is the only one in the Phlegrean Fields which still exbitis a remarkable activity, such as jets of sulphurous steam, small openings erupting hot mud and jets of sand. Macellum (Tempio di Serapide): it is actually not a temple, though it was so called since a statue of the Egyptian god Serapis was found in the excavations, but the "macellum", that is the city market annexed to the port. The complex is enclosed in a rectangular area with a porticoed court and a row of "tabernae" ( shops ) along each side. In the middle of the court rises a circular temple supported by 16 columns. The market was underwater until about 20 years ago, as still shown by shells encrusted in the columns. Tempio di Nettuno - built under emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century AD is a wide archeological complex including imposing thermal establishments of ancient Puteoli.

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