Nov 10, 2024
Mosaic floor from a villa in Baiae, an ancient Roman luxury town which was submerged centuries ago due to volcanic activity in the area.
Photos: © Edoardo Ruspantini
The Campi Flegrei Archaeological Park. World Heritage Site
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Mosaic floor from a villa in Baiae, an ancient Roman luxury town which was submerged centuries ago due to volcanic activity in the area.
Photos: © Edoardo Ruspantini
The Campi Flegrei Archaeological Park. World Heritage Site
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Baia – the ancient Roman city sunk deep under the sea for more than 500 years.
More than 2000 years ago, Baia was the Las Vegas of the Roman Empire – a resort town 30km from Naples on Italy’s caldera-peppered west coast that catered to the whims of poets, generals and everyone in between. The great orator Cicero composed speeches from his retreat by the bay, while the poet Virgil and the naturalist Pliny maintained residences within easy reach of the rejuvenating public baths.
Ah, Baia. It is like a song in my heart. A song with love and beautiful memories. Que saudades que eu tenho. Ah, Baia. I can close my eyes and can see it now. I can see the beautiful twilight in the sky. I can feel the breeze from the bay. And I can hear the music... the music of Baia.
THE THREE CABALLEROS (1944) | dir. Norman Ferguson, Jack Kinney, Clyde Geronimi, Bill Roberts and Harold Young
bathing men and women
in an illustrated copy of "de balneis puteolanis" by petrus de ebulo (a poem that describes the health benefits of about thirty healing springs found in the region around pozzuoli and baia), produced in italy (naples?), c. 1350-70
source: Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 135, fol. 27r and 20r
C A P R I
Finally a photo of one of my demonstrations in reenactment that satisfies me.
Even if the three women in front of me are my mum and my aunts 😅
Finally I got the chance to re-enact in my territory again... and I'm SO HAPPY about it.
Baia
