The first Greek colony on the Italian mainland, Cumae was founded around 750 BC by settlers from Chalcidia (on the island of Evia), who had already settled in Pithecussia on the island of Ischia a few years earlier. It was from Cumae that the founders of Neapolis (Naples) left in the5th century BC. The Hellenistic imprint left by the city on the whole of the gulf was to be lasting. Dominated by the Samnites at the end of the5th century BC, Cumae was taken by the Romans in 334 BC. Its decline, already underway, was confirmed several centuries later with the sacking by the Saracens in 915. Nevertheless, vestiges of the ancient city remain: in the archaeological park, one can discover the monuments of the upper city, the Acropolis with the temples of Apollo and Jupiter arranged on terraces, and one of the high places of the ancient world: the Cave of the Sibyl. From the top of the hill, the view allows you to see, in the lower city, the Roman forum of Cumae, bordered by the Capitoline temple and the thermal baths.

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