Cumae

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Cumae Description

(Local Name: Cuma) 35km/22mi west of Naples are the remains of Cumae (Italian Cuma, Greek Kyme), the oldest Greek settlement in Italy, founded in the ninth or eighth century B.C. and destroyed by the Saracens in the A.D. ninth century. The site has been excavated since 1926. Beyond a short tunnel, to the right, is the so-called Roman Crypt, a tunnel of Augustan date, 180m/197yd long, which runs under the acropolis to the sea. Opposite this, to the left, is the entrance of the Cave of the Sibyl (Antro della Sibilla), described by Virgil (Aeneid VI, 43 ff.) as having a hundred entrances and a hundred issues, "from which resound as many voices, the oracles of the prophetess". This is a passage hewn from the rock,

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Hobbies & Activities category: Cave; Architecture - Roman, Greek, classical; Archeological site or ruin; Lake

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Parco Archeologico di Cuma
Via Licola Cuma 50
I-80078 Cuma
Italy

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