Ancient site · Italy · Partial ruin
Cumae
Cumae is an ancient archaeological site on the Bay of Naples, founded as the first Greek colony on mainland Italy and later redeveloped under Roman rule. The surviving remains include the acropolis on Monte di Cuma, temples, public buildings, baths, an amphitheatre, tunnels and a necropolis, lying near the modern villages of Bacoli and Pozzuoli in Campania, Italy.
Its prime
AD 20
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in AD 20
What Cumae looked like in its prime.
The site reads as layers of ashlar and tufa masonry: low podiums, foundations and fragmentary wall-lines stepping across a broad coastal plain toward a wooded acropolis. In prime form there would be stone-paved avenues, raised temple podia with frontal stairways and tiled roofs, semicircular stone seating of an amphitheatre, baths with grouped vaulted rooms, and entrances to long stone tunnels and a rocky grotto. Scattered column drums, rectangular courtyards and funerary tholos tombs sit among terraces and scrubby Mediterranean vegetation.
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11 places to explore in AD 20.
The record describes 11 distinct spots at Cumae — including 7 interiors: forum and the aula sillana (basilica-shaped building), temple of apollo (acropolis), temple of jupiter (acropolis) and more. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more of the immersive experience.
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