Posillipo is a residential hill of Naples . Posillipo
The term derives from the greek Pausilypon which literally means "break from the pain", the name linked to the landscape that you also enjoyed two thousand and five hundred years ago from this area of \u200b\u200bNaples. On the tip of Cape Posillipo is one of the two parks and Baia submerged Gaiola that of Gaiola, established in 2002 in the waters off the Gaiola and islets in the harbor of Marechiaro, for purposes of archaeological and environmental protection.
The hill of Posillipo is crossed by three main streets, parallel almost: Via Posillipo, which runs parallel to the coast by Mergellina to Cape Posillipo, Via Francesco Petrarca (formerly "street Overview") from an elevated position with views over the Bay of Naples properties and Vesuvius and Via Alessandro Manzoni (formerly "via Patrizi).
Until the early twentieth century Posillipo was not considered administratively part of Naples, but rather a suburb west of it.
In Posillipo district are: the Park of the Tomb of Virgil, near which lie the remains of the poet Latin, the tomb of the poet Giacomo Leopardi, the Grotto of Posillipo tunnel dug by the Romans who joined Puteoli to Neapolis; Park Virgil (not to be confused with the previous year); important villas by the sea as Villa Rosebery, the summer residence of the President of the Republic Italian, Roman buildings that were connected through a tunnel (called the "Cave of Sejanus") to the Roman port at one time located in the current Bagnoli.
bordered on the west by the districts of Bagnoli and Fuorigrotta and east districts of Piedigrotta and Chiaia. To the south the Gulf of Naples, part of the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Posillipo is located in the district of the same name, Club Nautico, which has many trophies, especially in water polo.
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