Pozzuoli Sentence Examples

The Phlegraean Fields embrace all the country round Baiae and Pozzuoli and the adjoining islands.

It is situated on and at the base of a hill projecting into the bay at Pozzuoli, separated from the main portion of the Gulf of Naples by the promontory of Posilipo.

In the middle ages Pozzuoli was frequently sacked and also damaged by the natural convulsions of 1198 and 1538.

Farther west, on the coast, and provided with a convenient harbour, stands Pozzuoli (Puteoli), a city containing many Roman remains, but now chiefly remarkable for the large gunworks erected by Messrs Armstrong & Co.; and beyond it, round the Bay of Baiae, are Monte Nuovo, a hill thrown up in a single night in September 1538; the classic site of Baiae; the Lucrine Lake; Lake Avernus; the Lake of Fusaro (Acherusia Palus); the Elysian t Fields; and the port and promontory of Misenum.

From Cumae they colonized Dikearchia (Pozzuoli) and probably subsequently Palaeopolis.