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FUSARO

• Royal "Casina"

ROYAL "CASINA"
Lake Fusaro, of lagoonal formation, was believed by the ancients to be the"Acherusia palus".
In the middle of the lake rises the Royal Casina. a bunting lodge built by Carlo Vanvitelli in A.D. 1782.

• Cenni storici
• Castle of Baia
• Archaeological Museum of The Phlegraean Fields

CENNI STORICI

According to the legend, this port took its name from Baios, the companion  of Ulysses who died and was buried here. At the beginning it was dependent upon the powerful Cumae. Baia owed its fame, in ancient times, to its mild climate and the copious hot springs, so that it was with good reason that Horace wrote" Nullus in orbe sinus Bais praelucet amoenis". Owing to bradyseism, the ancient city is now, to a great extent, under the sea.

CASTLE OF BAIA

 occupies a highly strategic vantage point  dominating the gulf of Pozzuoli. The fortress already existed in Aragonese  times and was enlarged by the Spanish viceroy don Pedro de Toledo after the eruption of Monte Nuovo (1538 A.D.). It has been a Military Orphanage since 1927. A considerable part of the castle has been housing an archaeological museum since  1993.

Opened in September 1993, the museum for the moment displays the collection of artefacts from the Shrine of the Augustals in Miseno, amongst which you can see the bronze equestrian statue of Domitian-Nerva, numerous plaster casts of Greek sculptures found in Baia and the submerged Nympheum at Punta Epitaffio