Posillipo

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The Vesuvius , seen from the Posillipo from.

The Posillipo (also: Posilipo) is an approximately six kilometer long range of hills southwest of Naples , from which one has an impressive view of the Gulf of Naples and the Bay of Pozzuoli . It consists largely of tuff . Virgil's grave is said to be at his feet .

The name Posillipo is derived from the ancient Pausilypon ("pain reliever", "end of suffering", compare Sanssouci ), a villa of the rich knight Publius Vedius Pollio at the time of Augustus .

The mountain gives the name to the Posillipo district of Naples, where the Italian composer and pianist Franco Alfano was born, best known for completing the opera Turandot by Giacomo Puccini . The Posillipo is accessed through the Via di Posillipo, which was started in 1812 by King Murat and completed under the Bourbons in 1823. It first runs along the coast and then climbs up the hills and offers numerous views of the Gulf of Naples and Mount Vesuvius.

The ancient Grotta di Pozzuoli tunnel crosses the hill.

literature

  • Robert Theodore Günther: Pausilypon, the Imperial Villa near Naples: with a description of the submerged foreshore and with observations on the tomb of Virgil and on other Roman antiquities on Posilipo , 1913

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Baedeker, Lower Italy and Sicily, Handbook for Travelers . 16th edition, Leipzig 1929, page 102

Coordinates: 40 ° 48 ′ 20 ″  N , 14 ° 12 ′ 12 ″  E