Piscina Mirabilis
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.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Cento Camerelle and Lago Miseno.
Cento Camerelle
Pennata
Islet
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Miseno and Miliscola.
Miseno
Village
Miseno is one of the frazioni of the municipality of Bacoli in the Italian Province of Naples. Known in ancient Roman times as Misenum, it is the site of a great Roman port.
Baiae
Suburb
Baiae is 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. Baiae is situated 3 km north of Piscina Mirabilis.
Piscina Mirabilis
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: reservoir
- Categories: ancient Roman cistern, historical civil building museum, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Bacoli, Metropolitan Naples, Campania, Southern Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
40.79518° or 40° 47′ 43″ north
Longitude
14.08029° or 14° 4′ 49″ east
Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)
Open location code
8FGPQ3WJ+34
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
building=yes
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Piscina Mirabilis” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Piscina mirabilis”
- Croatian: “Piscina Mirabilis”
- Czech: “Piscina mirabilis”
- Dutch: “Piscina Mirabilis”
- French: “Piscina mirabilis”
- Galician: “Piscina mirabilis”
- German: “Piscina mirabilis”
- Hungarian: “Piscina Mirabilis”
- Italian: “Piscina mirabile”
- Italian: “Piscina mirabilis”
- Neapolitan: “Piscina mirabilis”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Piscina Mirabilis”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Piscina Mirabilis”
- Russian: “Бассейн Мирабилис”
- Spanish: “Piscina mirabilis”
- Tagalog: “Piscina Mirabilis”
- Turkish: “Piscina mirabilis”
- Turkish: “Piscina Mirabilis”
- Ukrainian: “Басейн Мірабіліс”
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