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NaplesSights

Lake sights in Naples

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    Lago d’Averno

    In Virgil’s Aeneid, it is precisely from Lago d’Averno that Aeneas descends into the underworld. It’s hard to imagine hell in such a soothing setting, with old vineyards and citrus groves lining this ancient crater. A popular walking track now circles the lake’s entire perimeter, giving you more time to visualise bobbing ancient fleets – in 37 BC the Roman general Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa linked the lake to nearby Lago Lucrino and the sea, turning it into a strategic naval dockyard.

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