Tempio di Serapide

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  • Address
    Via Serapide, Pozzuoli
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  • Transport
    train: Cumana to Pozzuoli
underground rail: Pozzuoli

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East of the port, sunken in a leafy piazza, stands the Tempio di Serapide (Temple of Serapis). Despite its name, it wasn't a temple at all, but rather an ancient macellum (town market). Named after a statue of the Egyptian god Serapis found here in 1750, its ancient toilets (at either side of the eastern apse) are considered works of ancient ingenuity. Badly damaged over the centuries by bradeyism , the tempio is occasionally flooded by sea water.