Pozzuoli, Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, Italy

🇮🇹 Pozzuoli is a city and comune of the Metropolitan City of Naples, in the Italian region of Campania. It is the main city of the Phlegrean Peninsula.

Since 1946 the town has been the home of the Accademia Aeronautica, the Italian Air Force Academy, which was first situated on the island of Nisida, then from 1962 on a purpose-built hilltop campus overlooking the bay.

Tourist Industry The town's attractions include: • Flavian Amphitheatre (Amphitheatrum Flavium), the third largest Italian amphitheatre after the Colosseum and the Capuan Amphitheatre.  • The Macellum of Pozzuoli, also known as the Temple of Serapis or serapeum, is considered the city's symbol. The "temple" was actually a marketplace. Its name derives from the misinterpretation of its function after a statue of the god Serapis was found in 1750 at this location. The Macellum includes three majestic columns in Cipollino marble, which show erosion from marine Lithophaga molluscs when, at an earlier time, the ground level was much lower due to Bradyseism, and sea-water could flow in. • Temple of Augustus (part of the cathedral) • Smaller Amphitheatre, very near to the Flavian one, its remains were absorbed by other buildings, but some arches can be seen by Via Solfatara and Via Vigna. • Roman Baths, so-called Temple of Neptune, the remains of a big thermal complex now in Corso Terracciano which included also "Dianae Nymphaeum" nearby. • The Villa Avellino park has several Roman ruins and cisterns. There is also a still working Roman "face" water fountain. • Rione Terra, the first settlement of Puteoli, originally Dicearkia in Greek. • Necropolis of Via Celle, a rich complex of tombs and mausoleums, very near to an old Roman road still used today (Via Cupa Cigliano). • Necropolis of the Via Puteolis Capuam, just under the bridge that leads outside the city near Via Solfatara. • Stadium of Antoninus Pius, a very similar stadium to the Domitian one in Rome, partially excavated (Via Campi Flegrei). • The Piscina di Cardito cistern, second in size only to the Piscina Mirabilis, and uses as a settlement tank for the water supply from the Aqua Augusta aqueduct. • Sanctuary of San Gennaro (St. Januarius). With the Cathedral of Naples, it is one of the two places in which the alleged miracle of the liquefaction of the saint's blood occurs. • Solfatara (volcanic crater with active fumaroles).

Transportation It is easily reached by train from Rome on Naples Metro line 2, and by the trains of "Cumana" lines leaving from the station of Montesanto, in the city center.