Some details about Pozzuoli.

1. ISIS “ G. TASSINARI”
IS
A SECONDARY SCHOOL
WITH
A LINGUISTIC LYCEUM
AND
THREE TECHNICAL
COURSES:
1. INFORMATIC TECHNOLOGY
2. CHEMISTRY
3. MECHANICS

4. Pozzuoli is one of the most
fascinating archeological
area in the world.
Main port of the region in
Roman times, the city
revealed a surprising
“underground Pompeii” with
the escavations in the Rione
Terra.
Pozzuoli is located in a
volcanic area, the Phlegrean
Fields (the burning fields),
which includes a still active
volcano, the Solfatara.

6. At the Solfatara, near Pozzuoli, you can see the
inside of a crater with boiling lava, full of its vapours
and steaming muds
Born 4000 years ago almost in the exact centre of the Phlegrean Fields, the
Solfatara presents itself lively with geysers, sources of gases, mineral water springs
and boiling mud. The biggest geyser is called “Big Mouth”, a natural source of
pressured water vapour. It shoots out at 160°C and contains a mixture of gases
with a peculiar “rotten egg” smell.
The Vulcano Solfatara is the epicentre of the cyclic phenomenon of the rising and
lowering of the ground level known as “BRADISISM”.

7. It is the proof of
the lively
commerce
conducted in
Pozzuoli (I-II
sec.BC).
Indeed, the
so-called temple
was a food
market, a
“Macellum”.

8. For a long time the Averno lake was
considered the entrance of the hell, as
Virgil tells us in the beginning of the
Eneide.
The identification of this lake as the
main door of the hell is due to its
origins: The Averno lake is in the mouth
of an inactive volcano: in the past,
thanks to the volcanic exhalations, the
birds which flew over the lake died
instantaneously. That’s why the ancient
Romans used to call it “Aornon”, which
means “place without birds”. For this
reason, Virgil thought it was a demoniac
place, point of connection between the

9. The Amphitheatre is the third largest in the world.Its functional
architecture is an excellent example of the exceptional
technological levels reached in that era.