Lago d'Averno

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  • Address
    Via Lucrino Averno, Baia
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  • Transport
    train: Cumana to Lucrino
bus: Sepsa to Lucrino

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If someone tells you to go to hell, Lago d'Averno (Lake Averno) is a good place to start. In Virgil's Aeneid , it's from here that Aeneas descends into the underworld.

Not that there's anything infernal about it. Chilled-out and vine-fringed, the lake is an easy walk north of Lucrino train station.

In 37 BC the Roman general Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa linked the crater lake to nearby Lake Lucrino and subsequently to the sea, turning it into a strategic naval dockyard.

While the battleships have gone, the ruins of the Tempio di Apollo (Temple of Apollo) remain. Built during the reign of Hadrian in the 2nd century AD, this thermal complex once boasted a domed roof almost the size of the Pantheon in Rome. Today, only four great arched windows remain.