5 Sights in Bacoli, Italy (with Map and Images)
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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Bacoli, Italy! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Bacoli. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.
1. Piscina Mirabilis
The Piscina Mirabilis is an Ancient Roman cistern on the Bacoli hill at the western end of the Gulf of Naples, southern Italy. It ranks as one of the largest ancient cisterns built by the ancient Romans, compared to the largest Roman reservoir, the Yerebatan Sarayi in Istanbul.
2. Castello Aragonese di Baia
The Aragonese Castle is located in Baia, a hamlet of Bacoli, and is located in an area of considerable strategic importance, it was erected on a promontory naturally defended to the east by a high tuffaceous cliff overlooking the sea, and to the west by the deep depression given by the calderas of two volcanoes called "Fondi di Baia"; With the addition of walls, moats and drawbridges, the castle was practically impregnable. Its position - from which it dominated the entire Gulf of Pozzuoli up to Procida, Ischia and Cuma - allowed a very wide control of the area, preventing both the approach of enemy fleets and any landings of troops who wanted to march on Naples with a surprise action in the rear.
3. Parco Archeologico Terme di Baia
The archaeological complex of Baia is an archaeological area located in Baia, a hamlet of Bacoli, in the Campi Flegrei area. Today only what was then the hilly part of the city remains, the rest being below sea level, sunk due to bradyseismic phenomena.
4. Museo archeologico dei Campi Flegrei
The Archaeological Museum of the Phlegraean Fields is a museum housed in the Aragonese Castle of Baia, in the municipality of Bacoli (NA). Since December 2014, the museum has been managed by the Polo museale della Campania.
5. Sacello degli Augustali
The Sacellum of the Augustales is a building of the Roman era used for the rites of worship of the emperors, cared for by the Augustal priests that is located in Miseno, along the coast of Bacoli, in the metropolitan city of Naples.
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