Campanica | Monitoring Italy's Campania region around Naples

WE ALL LIVE IN A NEAPOLITAN YELLOW TUFF (NYT) Wherever you go in Campi Flegrei, you find this gumbo of old and new. At Bacoli, fishing boats bobbed in the harbour beside the Tomba di Agrippina, a palace-sized 1st-century mausoleum. Above town is the Piscina Mirabilis, where I descended 49 steps into the cistern that supplied the navy at Misenum. The “Miraculous Pool” was named by an early visitor, the lyric poet Petrarch, and looks like a cathedral built by mermaids. The uncrowded — and equally fascinating — alternative to Pompeii | The Times