Gulf of Naples

The Gulf of Naples (Italian: Golfo di Napoli) is a bay on the west coast of southern Italy. At about 30 km in length it cuts about 15 km from a mainland.

Location

To be the Gulf of Naples - clockwise from northwest to southeast - the ruins of the ancient Roman town of Baiae, the town of Pozzuoli with the Phlegraean Fields, the major city of Naples, Vesuvius with the excavations of the ancient cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, and finally the places Torre del Greco and Castellammare di Stabia. To the southeast of the Gulf is closed by the peninsula of Sorrento.

Is extended into the sea of the Gulf through the three islands of Capri (in the south ) and the Phlegraean islands of Ischia and Procida ( in the north). Other notable islands on the edge of the Gulf are Vivara (southwest of Procida) and Nisida ( at Pozzuoli). In the center of the Gulf, however, there are no islands, which are easily explained by the fact that probably the entire Gulf of Naples is the huge volcanic caldera of a super volcano ( Campi Flegrei ).

The environment of the Gulf of Naples is part of the Italian region of Campania and forms with more than 4.4 million inhabitants is the most important urban center in southern Italy.