The
area that is today covered by the inhabitants of Bacoli and Miseno was, in
ancient times, a place full of sumptuous patrician villas and imperial
residences. It was certainly the mild climate and the beauty of the area that
attracted the Roman nobility; a beauty that had, much earlier on, in mythology,
placed the Elysian Fields here.
The Elysian Fields viewed from the Mare Morto – C. L.Chatelet – XV111 century