SEA PROTECTED AREA UNDERWATER PARK OF GAIOLA

The hill of Posillipo, with the near zone of sea, is one of the most enchanting places of the Gulf of Naples. The name derives from the imposing villa that rose in Roman age: Pausilypon (place that makes the worries stop ). The structures of the villa that rose toward the sea, submerged by the bradisismo and by the variations of the level of the water, have been inserted within the Protected Sea area of the Underwater Park of Gaiola which constitutes the fulcrum of the shore of Posillipo, among the elevated coasts of the bay of Trentaremi and the softly degrading slants of Marechiaro.
Here the underwater landscape is constituted by an extraordinary union of archaeological rests and biological populations rich in multicoloured animal and vegetable forms, that find hospitality and shelter among the tangled building fabric of Roman epoch.
The environment changes from the coast toward the open sea ,through a variety of underwater landscapes that alternate benches of tufa eroded by the waves and carved by the hand of the man since the times of the Romans, to the typical rocky environment of the mediterranean coasts, rich of white and yellow gorgonie.

HOW TO ARRIVE

By car
Tangential of Naples, exit Vomero - Via Cilea; continue toward Via Manzoni up to locality Torre Ranieri; cross Via Petrarca up to the park of the Remembrance.

By train
Stations:
FS station Naples Centrale.
Subway in Naples, line 2, stop Phlegrean Fields ; continue by bus.

By bus:
From Naples, service bus SEPSA or ANM