Perhaps the most evocative classical site in the Campania, greatly
enhanced by the almost total absence of tourists (apart from
Bellini Travel subscribers). You can vividly imagine Aeneas' visit
to the Cumaean Sibyl in her underground grotto, one of the most
famous scenes in Virgil, as you walk down the dark, tufa corridor.
The Temple of Jupiter, on the highest point of the site, affords
a wonderful view over the sea to the island of Ischia, from where
the Greeks originally came to Cumae in the 8th century
BC, their first landing point on mainland Italy.
DIRECTIONS:Due west of
Naples just beyond Pozzuoli.
Address
Via Acropoli 1
Telephone
0039 081 854 3060
Opening
times
9am-one hour before sunset
Getting
there
Metro to Montesanto, Cumana train line to
Fusaro and bus to site at Cumae
