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!

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.

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..

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..