BACOLI and BAIA
Bacoli, the ancient "Bauli" of Roman time, shows numerous maritime villas, among whose ruins there is the "Odeon" improperly named Agrippina's Grave"
or "Cento Camerelle",
a villa equipped with an exceptionable cisterns system of republican time. Another big rectangular basin,
of Augustan time, used as a water reservoir to save "Serino" water, is the so called"Piscina Mirabilis", a precious water reserve for the Roman fleet in Miseno (the last part of Phlegraean Fields, characterized by the homonymous mountain where rose important imperial villas; its name derives from the legend which tells that "Miseno", Aeneas' bugler was buried here).
To be visited are Torregaveta,
a hill dropping straight to the sea,
the small bay called "Maremorto" and Sant'Anna Church (1691).
Baia is an enchanting port which takes name
from "Bajos", the companion of Ulysses who died and was buried here.
Decanted by Horace too, its hills were a proper site to build magnificent Roman villas and important thermal centres thanks to its hot springs.
Owing to bradysesism, the ancient city is now, to a great extent, under the sea.
Park of Baia
It is a grandiose architectonic complex made up of thermal rooms, rooms for relax and sightseeing,
it was characterized by terraces and arcades, divided into four "Temples": Diana, Mercurio, Sosandra and Venere.
Aragonese Castle and Archaeological Museum
The majestic shape of the Castle dominates Baia and Pozzuoli Gulf. Built in1490 by king Alfonso IInd of Aragona (45.000 mq. and 92 m. high), it was later enlarged. It was a fortress situated in a strategic position, today it is housing an archaeological museum exposing the main works found in the sea of Baia and Rione Terra in Pozzuoli (many of them are still intact).