Piazzale Giuseppe Minopoli

Piazzale Giuseppe Minopoli is in Pozzuoli, Metropolitan Naples, Campania. Piazzale Giuseppe Minopoli is situated nearby to the sports venue Scuola Calcio Monteruscello, as well as near the pitch Sant‘ Artema.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Lake Avernus and Monte Nuovo.

Lake Avernus

Lake

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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 2½ km south of Piazzale Giuseppe Minopoli.

Monte Nuovo

Volcano

Photo: Denghiù, Public domain.

Monte Nuovo is a cinder cone volcano within the Campi Flegrei caldera, near Naples, southern Italy. 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. Monte Nuovo is situated 3 km south of Piazzale Giuseppe Minopoli.

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 2½ km southwest of Piazzale Giuseppe Minopoli.

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

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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 southwest of Piazzale Giuseppe Minopoli.

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 5 km south of Piazzale Giuseppe Minopoli.

Piazzale Giuseppe Minopoli

Type: Pedestrian zone
Location: Pozzuoli, Metropolitan Naples, Campania, Southern Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude

40.86283° or 40° 51′ 46″ north

Longitude

14.0795° or 14° 4′ 46″ east

Open location code

8FGPV37H+4Q

OpenStreetMap ID

way 362115194

OpenStreetMap feature

highway=pedestrian

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