The
city, since it’s origin has been it’s port. Rome reinforced Puteoli so that
it could stop Hannibal establishing a landing-place in the Mediterranean. Since
then even the port, apart from following the ups and downs of the city, has
changed with the change of the coastline, sometimes submerged, sometimes above
sea-level. Now it’s jetty covers the ancient one of Caligola while the wharves
themselves go much further out to sea than the outline of the antique structures.
The
port of Pozzuoli- T. Duclére – X1X century