A dive into the fiery heart of the ancient world

Built by the ancient Romans, and visited by them as a privileged holiday resort, like nearby Baia, Bacoli, or Bauli, as it was then called, is the first municipality in the north-west of the Phlegrean peninsula, overlooking the Gulf of Pozzuoli.
The Roman orator, writer and Senator Quintus Aurelius Simmachus famously said of Bacoli: 
"I left that place because there was a danger that if I became too attached to staying at Bauli, all the other places I still have left to see would not appeal to me".
In the area of this ancient city there are in fact some of the most important Greco-Roman sites of the ancient age, such as Baia, Fusaro and Miseno, as well as parts of Cuma and Miliscola, which was home to the Pretorian fleet of the Roman emperors.
Among the many attractions to be found in the Bacoli area are Lake Fusaro, overlooked by the delightful Royal Bourbon residence known as the Casina Vanvitelliana, and the Phlegrean Fields Archaeological Museum in the 15th-century Castle of Baia, which safeguards and offers the public an indispensable concentration of Campania's myths, history, identity and excellence.