Monumental Park of Baia – Phlegraean fields

The monumental park of Baia keeps a lot of Romans archaeological finds collected all around the Phlegraean fields. When Cuma was a powerful town, the patrician used to come in Baia to spend their holidays, that’s how Baia became one of the holiday resort most known of the antiquity and that’s why that all these rich Romans built their villas here. Baia was the Capri of the antiquity and all the ancient rich people made this place became the land of the dissolution and of the fun without limits. The visit at the Monumental Park of Baia it’s a path that will bring you in the splendour of the past, from the ancient spa zone to the remains of the villas built in the higher zone. The uncontrolled housing speculation risked to erase for ever the ancient history of Baia: Suffice it to say that, on the highest part of the park, near the cellar of a big villa, there’s a house in which lived a solitary nun, the legend tells that she was crazy because the devil persecute her.