Tourist attractions Cuma

Housed in a 16C building, this museum’s collections are essentially composed of works from the Farnese collection ( Greco-Roman sculpture ), and objects found at Herculanum and Pompeii. This makes it one of the world’s richest selections of Greek and..

Several rooms of the National Archaeological Museum are devoted to this villa discovered in Herculanum in the 18C. The Papyrus Room (n o 114) contains photographs of some of the 800 papyruses that were housed in the library. The bronze statue..

These rooms of the National Archaeological Museum house objects and paintings from the temple discovered at Pompeii . The focus is on three spaces, partially reconstructed here: the portico, the ekklesiasterion (where Isis's followers would gath..

These rooms of the National Archaeological Museum house exquisite frescoes from Pompeii , Herculanum and Stabies. The diversity of styles and colours is testimony to the incredible richness of Roman decoration. There are splendid paintings ins..

The residents of Fontana have learnt a good trick. They hold their donkeys by the reins as they wait for the bus. The donkeys can easily take you to the top of Mount Epomeo (but rest assured you can also climb up the path on foot), with its narrow tu..

Situated on a hill of volcanic rock and volcanic tufa and fronted by an avenue of bay trees, this acropolis accommodates Sibyl's cave , where the most renowned prophetess of the ancient world spoke as an oracle, the relics of various temples (thos..

Dating from the reign of Vespasian, this amphitheatre is one of the largest in Italy and could hold almost 40 000 spectators. Built of brick and stone, the surrounding walls, the entrances and especially the underground parts (corridors, storage ar..

Fumaroles of sulphur, strong smelling and with yellow deposits, miniature volcanoes spitting mud, jets of bubbling sand, hot ground which sounds hollow when trodden on...this extinct volcano is still very impressive!

Ischia Ponte owes its name to the causeway built by the Aragonese, linking the mainland to the rocky islet of Ischia, on which sits the Castello Aragonese, a fine group of buildings comprising a castle and several churches. From the terrace of the ba..

This complex of galleries cut into the volcanic rock is laid out over two levels. They form a “baptistry” and a spacious basilica with three naves (4C-6C). The tomb of St Januarius, buried here in the 6C, is decorated with frescoes representing the s..

Nestling between a rocky islet and the jetty linking it to the shore, the port of Santa Lucia has preserved its charm. The Castel dell'Ovo or “Egg Castle” is a severe Norman structure, remodelled by the Angevins, which takes its name from the magic e..

On the site of Greek Neapolis, the heart of the city, Spaccanapoli is an east-west road on the line of the decumanus of the Antique city (Via Tribunali corresponds with the main decumanus, Via Croce, Via San Giagio dei Librai and Via Vicaria with the..

Surrounded by a deep moat, the imposing Castel Nuovo was built in 1282 by Charles I of Anjou’s architects, Pierre de Chaulnes and Pierre d’Agincourt, using Angers castle as their model. On the city side, a fine triumphal arch (1467) marks the entra..

Capodimonte was built by Charles III beginning in 1738 to house the Farnese collection. At the very summit of the hill, the palace stands in a pleasant park where you will discover the remains of a porcelain factory, famous in the 18C. The royal apar..

The 121 stairs lead to Naples' underground passages buried 30-40m below in galleries of tufa that the Greeks dug in the 4C BC for the construction of the boundary walls of the city. The Roman Aqueduct carried water into the city until 1885. The r..

The collections of the Farnese, inherited from the Bourbons and added to down the years, form the nucleus of the gallery.The essentially chronological presentational layout allows visitors to trace major movements in the history of Italian art, and c..

This arch located on the small road leading to Naples, was built over the ancient Via Domitia, some vestiges of which still remain.

The lake lies below the Cumae-Naples road, dark and still within a deep crater surrounded by wooded hillsides. It probably seemed even more unfathomable in antiquity when the birds flying overhead were overcome by fumes and dropped into the lake to b..

This is not a temple but a former market which was lined with shops! Its name come from an apse in the end wall where there used to be a statue of Serapis, the protecting God of traders. The remaining columns in the central pavilion show signs of mar..

Dating from the early years of the Roman Empire, this temple is located at the top of the town and was converted into a church in the 11C... and forgotten until a recent fire revealed a grandiose marble colonnade.