Bacoli
Bacoli is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the Italian region of Campania, located about 15 kilometres west of Naples.Photo: Denghiù, Public domain.
- Type: Locality with 26,200 residents
- Description: Italian comune
- Also known as: “063006”
- Neighbors: Pozzuoli
Places of Interest
Highlights include Piscina Mirabilis and Cape Miseno.
Piscina Mirabilis
Archaeological site
Photo: Raboe001, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
The Piscina Mirabilis is an Ancient Roman cistern on the Bacoli hill at the western end of the Gulf of Naples, southern Italy. It ranks as one of the largest ancient cisterns built by the ancient Romans, compared to the largest Roman reservoir, the Yerebatan Sarayi in Istanbul.
Cape Miseno
Lighthouse
Photo: General Cucombre, CC BY 2.0.
Cape Miseno is the headland that marks the northwestern limit of the Gulf of Naples as well as the Bay of Pozzuoli in southern Italy. The town of Miseno is located on the north side of the cape.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pozzuoli and Procida.
Pozzuoli
Photo: NorbertNagel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pozzuoli is a city and comune of the Metropolitan City of Naples, in the Italian region of Campania. It is the main city of the Phlegrean Peninsula. Pozzuoli, known in antiquity as Puteoli, was established in 531 BC as the Greek colony of Dicaearchia by refugees fleeing the tyranny of Polycrates on Samos.
Procida
Photo: Mentnafunangann, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Procida is one of the Phlegraean Islands off the coast of Naples in southern Italy. The island is between Cape Miseno and the island of Ischia. With its tiny satellite island of Vivara, it is a comune of the Metropolitan City of Naples, in the region of Campania.
Baiae
Suburb
Photo: Kleuske, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Baiae was an ancient Roman town situated on the northwest shore of the Gulf of Naples and now in the comune of Bacoli. It was a resort for centuries in antiquity, particularly towards the end of the Roman Republic, when it was reckoned as superior to Capri, Pompeii, and Herculaneum by wealthy Romans, who built villas here from 100 BC.
Bacoli
- Category: comune of Italy
- Location: Metropolitan Naples, Campania, Southern Italy, Italy, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Bacoli” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باكولي”
- Aragonese: “Vacule”
- Armenian: “Բակոլի”
- Azerbaijani: “Bakoli”
- Basque: “Bacoli”
- Bavarian: “Bacoli”
- Belarusian: “Бакалі”
- Breton: “Bacoli”
- Bulgarian: “Баколи”
- Catalan: “Bacoli”
- Cebuano: “Bacoli”
- Chechen: “Баколи”
- Chinese: “Bacoli”
- Chinese: “巴科利”
- Dimli (individual language): “Bacoli”
- Dutch: “Bacoli”
- Esperanto: “Bacoli”
- French: “Bacoli”
- German: “Bacoli”
- Greek: “Μπάκολι”
- Hungarian: “Bacoli”
- Indonesian: “Bacoli”
- Interlingua: “Bacoli”
- Irish: “Bacoli”
- Italian: “Bacoli”
- Italian: “Comune di Bacoli”
- Japanese: “バーコリ”
- Kazakh: “Баколи”
- Korean: “바콜리”
- Kurdish: “Bacoli”
- Ladin: “Bacoli”
- Latin: “Bauli”
- Lithuanian: “Bakolis”
- Lombard: “Bacoli”
- Macedonian: “Баколи”
- Malay: “Bacoli”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bacoli”
- Neapolitan: “Vacule”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bacoli”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bacoli”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bacoli”
- Ossetian: “Баколи”
- Persian: “باکولی”
- Piemontese: “Bacoli”
- Polish: “Bacoli”
- Portuguese: “Bacoli”
- Romanian: “Bacoli”
- Russian: “Баколи”
- Scots: “Bacoli”
- Serbian: “Bacoli”
- Serbian: “Баколи”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bacoli, Napoli”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bacoli”
- Sicilian: “Bàculi”
- Silesian: “Bacoli”
- Slovenian: “Bacoli”
- South Azerbaijani: “باکولی”
- Spanish: “Bacoli”
- Swahili: “Bacoli”
- Swedish: “Bacoli”
- Tagalog: “Bacoli”
- Tatar: “Баколи”
- Turkish: “Bacoli”
- Ukrainian: “Баколі”
- Uzbek: “Bacoli”
- Venetian: “Bacoli”
- Volapük: “Bacoli”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bacoli”
- Welsh: “Bacoli”
- “Bacoli”
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