The Campi Flegrei Dilemma

vesuvius and the bay of naples

Campi Flegrei, the famed “Phlegraean Fields” (Fields of Fire) caldera just west of Naples, is not your average volcano. This super-volcanic caldera spans some ~13km across, buried partly beneath the Bay of Naples and largely overlapping with towns like Pozzuoli, Bacoli, and Quarto, and is home to hundreds of thousands of residents.