naples Flights

Naples, Italian Napoli, ancient (Latin) Neapolis (“New Town”), city, capital of Naples Provincia, Campania region, southern Italy. It lies on the west coast of the Italian peninsula, 120 miles (190 km) southeast of Rome. On its celebrated bay—flanked to the west by the smaller Gulf of Pozzuoli and the southeast by the more extended indentation of the Gulf of Salerno—the city is situated between two areas of volcanic activity: Mount Vesuvius to the east and the Campi Flegrei (Phlegraean Fields) to the northwest. The most recent eruption of Vesuvius occurred in 1944. In 1980 an earthquake damaged Naples and its outlying towns. Since then, Pozzuoli to the west has been seriously afflicted by bradyseism (a phenomenon involving a fall or rise of land).