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The name "Campania" is derived from Latin; the Romans knew the region as Campania felix ("fertile countryside" or "happy countryside"). The rich natural beauty of Campania makes it important to the tourism industry: the city of Naples, the Amalfi Coast, Mount Vesuvius, and the islands of Capri and Ischia have long been major attractions.
The coasts of Campania are high and jagged and low and sandy in the plains. The main rivers are: the Volturno, which bathes Capua and flows into the Gulf of Gaeta; the Sele, which flows into the Gulf of Salerno; the Garigliano, which flows along the border with Lazio and flows into the Gulf of Gaeta; and the Ofanto, which originates in Irpinia and flows into the Adriatic Sea.
The five principal islands are all administered by the Metropolitan City of Naples: Capri and; the 4 Phlegraean Islands: Ischia & its companion islet, the Aragonese Castle; Nisida, Procida, and; Vivara. Nearby islets and skerries are usually included in the archipelago as well: Aragonese Castle; the Sirenuse (the Galli) & the nearby Vetara Skerry .
The Peninsula separates the Gulf of Naples from the Gulf of Salerno, which includes the Amalfi Coast. The islands of Capri , Ischia and Procida are located in the Gulf of Naples. [ 1 ] The area is a tourist destination, with the seaside Roman ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum at the foot of Mount Vesuvius (destroyed in the AD 79 eruption of ...
Naples (/ ˈ n eɪ p əl z / NAY-pəlz; Italian: Napoli ⓘ; Neapolitan: Napule [ˈnɑːpələ]) [a] is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, [3] after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022. [4]
[a] It is part of the Campanian volcanic arc, which includes Mount Vesuvius, about 9 km (6 miles) east of Naples. The Phlegraean Fields is monitored by the Vesuvius Observatory. [6] It was declared a regional park in 2003. The area of the caldera consists of 24 craters and volcanic edifices. Most of them lie under the Gulf of Naples.
The "Naples waste management crisis" is a series of events surrounding the lack of waste collection and illegal toxic waste dumping in and around the Province of Naples (now known as the Metropolitan City of Naples), Campania, Italy, beginning in the 1980s. [1]
Map of Naples, 1572 An 18th-century painting depicting an eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Naples. The Naples area has been inhabited since the Neolithic period. The earliest historical sources in the area were left by the Myceneans in the 2nd millennium BC. During its long history, Naples ...