Depuratore di Cuma

Depuratore di Cuma is a wastewater treatment plant in Giugliano in Campania, Metropolitan Naples, Campania. Depuratore di Cuma is situated near the pitch Campetto della chiesa, as well as near the playground Giostrine della Chiesa.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Licola railway station and Lake Avernus.

Licola railway station

Railway station

Photo: Mikhail (Vokabre) Shcherbakov, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Licola railway station is situated 590 metres west of Depuratore di Cuma.

Lake Avernus is a volcanic crater lake located in the Avernus crater in the Campania region of southern Italy, around 4 kilometres west of Pozzuoli. It is near the volcanic field known as the Phlegraean Fields and comprises part of the wider Campanian volcanic arc. Lake Avernus is situated 3½ km south of Depuratore di Cuma.

Grotta di Cocceio

Cave

Photo: Ruthven, CC0.

The Grotta di Cocceio is an ancient Roman tunnel nearly a kilometre in length connecting Lake Avernus with Cumae and dating from 38-36 BC. It was burrowed through the tuff stone of Monte Grillo by the architect Lucius Cocceius Auctus at the command of Agrippa who was in the process of converting the Lake into a military port, the Portus Julius. Grotta di Cocceio is situated 3 km south of Depuratore di Cuma.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Licola and Cumae.

Licola

Suburb

Licola is a land in the province of Naples which takes its name from Lago di Licola, a lake which formerly occupied part of the area. The current population of Licola ranges between 4000 and 5000.

Cumae

Village

Photo: AlexanderVanLoon, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Cumae was the first ancient Greek colony of Magna Graecia on the mainland of Italy and was founded by settlers from Euboea in the 8th century BCE. It became a rich Roman city, the remains of which lie in and around modern Cuma, an area divided between the neighboring comuni of Pozzuoli and Bacoli, in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania. Cumae is situated 3½ km south of Depuratore di Cuma.

Baiae

Suburb

Photo: Kleuske, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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 6 km south of Depuratore di Cuma.

Depuratore di Cuma

Type: Wastewater treatment plant
Category: industry
Location: Giugliano in Campania, Metropolitan Naples, Campania, Southern Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude

40.87047° or 40° 52′ 14″ north

Longitude

14.06587° or 14° 3′ 57″ east

Open location code

8FGPV3C8+58

OpenStreetMap ID

way 170319085

OpenStreetMap feature

man_made=wastewater_plant

Wikidata ID

Q3705734

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Italian: “Depuratore di Cuma”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Campetto della chiesa and Giostrine della Chiesa.

Nearby Places

Places to explore: Cuma and Via Reginella - Civico N° 26.

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