Solfatara — Attraction in Pozzuoli

I had the chance to visit this amazing place before the accident and the subsequent closure. After visiting Wai'o'tapu and Yellowstone NP, famous for its volcanic activity, I was excited to see what the notorious Flegrean Fields had to offer. After paying the toll booth, you are literaly entering the crater of an active volcano ! Right in the middle of a metropolis, how strange... As you make your way inside your are soon surrounded by many impressing volcanic phenomenons : fumerole, bubling mud pools, big sulphur vents hissing poisonous gas. The smell of rotten eggs is overwhelming, your throat and eyes are irritated by the sulphurous gases. You can feel the giant breathing under you. Touch the ground : it's hot ! Then you realize that magma is flowing just under your feet, heating the ground, pushing it up, trying to escape, like a lion roaring in its cage. It is fascinating and horrifying at the same time. As you look around you see houses, buildings : a whole city was built around it. The whole area is sitting over one giant active supervolcano on the brink of explosion ! The city of Pozzuoli - a suburb of Naples- with it 500.000 people are living atop this active caldeira just waiting to explode. Mount Vesuvius is watching over it like a father over its offspring. An Italian proverb says "Vedi Napoli e poi muori" meaning literally "See Naples and then die” like a cinical metaphore reminding you of the amazing beauty of Naples has to offer with the potential for a disaster of biblical proportions. While you are in the area you will certainly go to Pompei and Herculaneum - memories of glorious wonders of an ancient past brutally destroyed in its prime. Such is the destiny of...

If you would like to see a volcano then please visit this place. I believe years back a family lost their life and fall inside it and since then for the purpose of security and safety they closed this place for public visit.A part of the European equivalent to Yellowstone Volcano. The last VEI class 8 eruption here was in the last glacial period (Wisconsin Glaciation) prior to the Last Glacial...

Great and a bit smelly experience :) We were unlucky cause it was closed due to some construction repairs.. If u find your self in such situation u can still have some of it...just follow the road another 50m uphill and you'll get the wiew from the photos. It is situated in a vulcano crater and you can see some sulfur steam activity inside... There are several vulcanos in the area nice for...