Parco Tirreno

Parco Tirreno is a residential area in Pozzuoli, Metropolitan Naples, Campania. Parco Tirreno is situated near the park Parco Azzurro, as well as near the church Chiesa Sant’Artema.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Licola railway station and Grotta di Cocceio.

Licola railway station

Railway station

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

Licola railway station is situated 1¼ km northwest of Parco Tirreno.

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 2 km south of Parco Tirreno.

Arco Felice

Archaeological site

Photo: Ruthven, CC0.

Arco Felice is an archaeological site, which is situated 2 km south of Parco Tirreno.

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 3 km south of Parco Tirreno.

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 Parco Tirreno.

Parco Tirreno

Type: Residential area
Location: Pozzuoli, Metropolitan Naples, Campania, Southern Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude

40.86231° or 40° 51′ 44″ north

Longitude

14.06583° or 14° 3′ 57″ east

Open location code

8FGPV368+W8

OpenStreetMap ID

way 979486356

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=residential

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Parco Azzurro and Chiesa Sant’Artema.

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