Tour of Pozzuoli and the Campi Flegrei

Program :

• The "Land of the Phlegraean Fields"is a veritable emporium of the mighty Cumae, founded by the Greeks, back in the 8th century B.C. Called by them "Phlegraios" (fiery) for the volcanic activities present there, noted since the first Aegean navigators.
  Today, the Phlegraean Fields present an eventful and varied landscape of extinct volcanoes and archaeological structures.
• Pozzuoli founded in 530 B.C., with the arrival of exiles from Samos, who gave it the augural name of DICEARCHIA (Just Government).
  Later it fell, together with the entire Phlegraean area, under Campanian rule, and in 338 B.C. under that of Rome. Hannibal in the century 215 B.C. also attempted to conquer it.
  In time, the name changed to Puteoli (Small Wells), and it became the most important port in the Mediterranean so much so that it was called "Delus minor" and "litora mundi hospita".
  In 61 St. Paul, stopped for a short time in Pozzuoli and here he already found there a community of Christians. It in fact through the activity of its port, was enriched over time with traditions and religions of other civilizations.
  With the opening of the port of Ostia, the fall of Rome and the accentuation of bradyseism, Pozzuoli experienced a period of decline until it became a small fishing center.
  Later after the eruption of Monte Nuovo (1538), Pozzuoli began through the work of Spanish Viceroy Don Pedro Alvarez de Toledo a slow recovery.