Naples Sights

Grotta di Seiano

#81 of 349 things to do in Naples

#7541 of 49063 things to do in Europe

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  • Address
    • Discesa Coroglio 36 Posillipo
  • Transport
    • 140 to Via Posillipo
  • Phone
    • tel, info: 081 230 10 30
  • Hours
    • Mon-Sat

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Lonely Planet review for Grotta di Seiano

At the bottom of a long, steep and exhausting descent, the Grotta di Seiano is not, in fact, a cave but a 1st-century tunnel linking the Roman Villa Pausilypon to Pozzuoli. Ventilated by three air ducts opening onto the sea, it was dug out of the tufa rock by Cocceius, the same Roman engineer who built the Crypta Neapolitana in Parco Vergiliano . When the villa's owner Publio Vedio Pollione died in 15 BC, he bequeathed his clifftop pad to friend and emperor, Augustus.

 

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