REGIONAL PARK PHLEGREAN FIELDS

The phlegrean area with its spectacular scenery of hollow, smokes, burnt rocks, gusts of gas, is one of the most extraordinary places of our Country. The zone of Phlegrean Fields, adjacent to the city of Naples, includes 19 craters in an area of around 64 kmqs and around 30 volcanic formations, among which Camaldoli, (the most elevated point of the whole area), the Mount Gàuro or Barbaro, whose side craters are called the Broken Mountain, the Cigliano, the crater of Quarto (the widest of the area), the crater of Agnano culminating in Mount Spina and Mount S. Angelo, the craters of Astroni and Fossa Lupara, the Lake of Averno or Cannito. The 1538 is the date of formation of the last crater: the eruption gave origin to a regular volcanic cone of 140 meters called Monte Nuovo. The Solfatara (mine of sulphur), one of the better known craters, erupted for the last time in 1198, producing a river of lava that reached the sea in the proximities of the port of Pozzuoli: since then it continues to blow gas. From 1970, the whole phlegrean area, subjected to the phenomenon of the bradisismo (oscillation of the ground owed to a mass of magma situated to around 3 kms of depth ), is constantly kept under control through a seismic and geodesic net which makes head to the observatory of Vesuvius, ancient institution founded in 1841 by Ferdinando II and of which was manager the abbot Giuseppe Mercalli. If in 1970, in fact, the ground of Pozzuoli recorded in little time a lifting of almost 2 meters, from the summer of 1982 the ascending bradisismo doesn't mention to halt.

HOW TO ARRIVE

Departing from Naples, Pozzuoli can be reached by Subway or by Cumana, public bus of Azienda Napoletana Mobilità(ANM), of Sepsa and CTP (Consorzio Trasporti Pubblici), but also by Lines MM1 of the Subway of the Sea, MM2 and MM3.By private car we recommend to use the Tangenziale to cover the around 20 kilometers (time of route about 15 minutes).