A Roman villa surfaces thanks to a volcano
Most famously, the supervolcano Vesuvius obliterated Pompei, though some Neapolitans would phrase it differently: the volcano brought the city eternal life. However, Vesuvius is only one major outlet in a field of volcanic activity, and their belief might have been proven right.
In the north of the city, Lake Fusaro has been experiencing geological shifts because of the active and volatile activity happening beneath the ground. Locals refer to it as one of the five lakes on Campi Flegrei as an inferno, as in hell, a swamp of sulfuric gases.
The Earth’s surface has been rising due to the flow of magma or hydrothermal fluids, a phenomenon known as bradyseism.
When the first colonies settled in the seventh century BCE, the Greeks named the area “the burning fields” or Campi Flegrei. They found themselves not just on one volcano but a region.