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Monte Nuovo

Monte Nuovo is a cinder cone volcano within the Campi Flegrei caldera, near , southern . A series of damaging earthquakes and changes in land elevation preceded its only eruption, during the most recent part of the Holocene, which lasted from September 29 to October 6, 1538, when it was formed.
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Photo: Denghiù, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lake Avernus and Lucrinus Lacus.

Lake
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is a volcanic crater lake located in the Avernus crater in the region of southern Italy, around 4 kilometres west of . It is near the volcanic field known as the and comprises part of the wider Campanian volcanic arc.

Lake
Photo: Inviaggiocommons, Public domain.
or Lucrine Lake is a lake in , southern Italy. It is less than one kilometre to the south of and is separated from the by a narrow strip of land.

Archaeological site
Photo: Denghiù, Public domain.
was the first harbour specifically constructed to be a base for the Roman western naval fleet, the classis Misenensis. The port was located near and protected by the Misenum peninsula at the north-western end of the .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Baiae and Cumae.

Suburb
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was an ancient Roman town situated on the northwest shore of the and now in the comune of . It was a fashionable resort for centuries in antiquity, particularly towards the end of the Roman Republic, when it was reckoned as superior to , , and by wealthy Romans, who built villas here from 100 BC.

Village
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was the first ancient Greek colony of Magna Graecia on the mainland of Italy and was founded by settlers from in the 8th century BCE. It became a rich Roman city, the remains of which lie near the modern village of Cuma, a frazione of the comune and in the Metropolitan City of Naples, , Italy.

Village
is a frazione of the comune of , in the metropolitan city of Naples, in . It has approximately one thousand inhabitants.

Monte Nuovo

Latitude
40.83526° or 40° 50′ 7″ north
Longitude
14.0878° or 14° 5′ 16″ east
Elevation
458 metres (1,503 feet)
Open location code
8FGPR3PQ+44
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2258885151
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­volcano
Geo­Names ID
3172145
Wiki­data ID
Q1084616
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Satellite Map

Discover Monte Nuovo from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Venetian—“Monte Nuovo” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Monte Nuovo (bolkan)”
  • Cebuano: “Monte Nuovo”
  • Dutch: “Monte Nuova”
  • Dutch: “Monte Nuovo”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت نوڤو”
  • Finnish: “Monte Nuovo”
  • French: “Éruption du Monte Nuovo en 1538”
  • French: “Monte Nuovo”
  • French: “Tripergole”
  • German: “Monte Nuovo”
  • Hungarian: “Monte Nuovo”
  • Italian: “Monte Nuovo”
  • Italian: “Montenuovo”
  • Japanese: “モンテ・ヌオーヴォ”
  • Ladin: “Monte Nuovo”
  • Neapolitan: “Monte Nuovo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Monte Nuovo”
  • Persian: “مونت نووو”
  • Spanish: “Monte Nuovo”
  • Ukrainian: “Монте-Нуово”
  • Venetian: “Monte Nuovo”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Monte Nuovo”. Photo: Denghiù, Public domain.