The submerged park of Baia is a protected marine area located on the coasts of the metropolitan city of Naples north of the Gulf of Naples. Established in 2002 with a joint decree by the Minister for the Environment and the Protection of the Territory and that of Cultural Heritage and Activities, the area represents, together with the submerged park of Gaiola, a unique example of archaeological and naturalistic protection underwater.
The two protected areas, placed on the ground in the broader context of the Campi Flegrei park within the competence of the Campania Region, propose the protection and study of submerged archaeological finds in these areas together with the preservation of marine and coastal ecosystems. The peculiarity of these areas is linked to the volcanic phenomenon of bradyseism that has always affected the entire north coast of the Neapolitan area.
This phenomenon caused vertical movements of the area with positive and negative excursions of many meters, causing the sinking of the Roman coast line of about 6/8 meters in the last 2000 years. Around the first century BC in fact the entire coastal area north of Naples was a thriving health resort, made fashionable also by the presence of an imperial villa, the Pausilypon precisely which gave its name to the Posillipo Promontory, built by the wealthy freedman Publius Vedio Pollione.
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Baia - Italian submerged Atlantis
Address: Via Molo di Baia, 80070
Phone: +39 333 520 9334
Site:
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