rione terra di pozzuoli

Typology: Archaeology

Location: Naples and Campania

Rione Terra di Pozzuoli
Pozzuoli (Naples), Largo Sedile di Porto
Information and booking 848.800.288, from abroid and mobiles +39.06.39967050

NOTICE: starting saturday september 26 the site is closed

The ancient city of Pozzuoli was found as “Dicearchia” by the Greeks in 530 B.C. on the northern coast of Naples. Since 194 B.C. the city was called “Puteoli” and began the most important Roman port of the region during the Augustan age, until the 2nd century when the Ostia’s port replace it. The city was destroyed in 410 A.C. by Alarico’s invasion, but in the ancient “acropolis”, situated on the tufaceous promontory at 33 m from the sea, the inhabitants continued to live near the bishop’s residence of the district, known as Rione Terra.
From the 15th century until 1538, the city was damaged by earthquakes and eruptions, after which the viceroy Don Pedro de Toledo promoted its renaissance, annexing the architectural and urbanistic pre-existences.
In modern age the district began a slowly decadence, culminating with the evacuations for the bradyseism of 1970 and 1980. In 1993, during the restoration of the Rione Terra, began also the archaeological excavation of the eastern city district, and the tufaceous rests of the “Capitolium” and the marble structures of the Augustus Temple was founded (the temple was discovered in 1964 after the cathedral’s fire).
From 2002 it also open a suggestive archaeological subterranean route which allows to walk along the “decumani” and “cardine” of the ancient city, watch around the porches, the warehouse and the taverns, also one “pistrinum” store with originally volcanic millstones. The excavations revealed many architectural fragments and some marble sculptures, Romans copies from Greeks classicals, now exposed in the Museo Archeologico dei Campi Flegrei del Castello di Baia.
From February 2004, new itineraries enriched the archaeological route. In the subterranean of the Palazzo Migliaresi and along the “decumani” are open the “ergastula”, the small slave rooms. In a building was found a subterranean “larario”, frescoed with “Olympus” twelve gods, near some warehouse and the taverns.

Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Soprintendenza per i beni archeologici di Napoli e Caserta

Prices:

ADULTS € 4,00

REDUCED FEE € 2,00 for UE citizens under 25 years old and for Pozzuoli's residents

FREE ENTRANCE for UE childrens under 6 years old

ARCHAEOLOGICAL COMPLEX AT THE PHLEGRAEN AND RIONE TERRA valid 2 days on the week ends for Rione Terra, Museo Archeologico dei Campi Flegrei a Baia, Zona Archeologica di Baia, Anfiteatro Flavio e Serapeo a Pozzuoli, Scavi di Cuma:
ADULTS € 6,00

REDUCED FEE € 4,00

ENTRANCE RESERVATION SUGGESTED individuals € 0,50 by call center, € 1,50 by internet; groups € 10,00; schools free

ARTECARD the site is included in the Campania Artecard circuit

Timetables:

NOTICE: starting saturday september 26 the site is closed

Opening only Saturday and Sunday from 10 am to 7:00 pm.

Closed January 1 and December 25.

Ticket office closes an half hour before closing time.

Services:

VISITS FOR GROUPS
hours: on request
languages: English, Italian
persons: max 25
duration: 45 minutes
price: € 90,00
booking: required

INFORMATION AND BOOKING
Individuals, groups, schools: +39.06.39967050 (Mondays-Fridays 9 am-6pm Saturdays 9am-2pm)