From
the V century A.C. onwards, Puteoli started sinking and becomes a marsh like
land; malaria and raids on the city reduce it to the antique rock it was
initially. In the Middle-Ages it becomes a village with no name, in the work of
the geographer Idrisi; in the X111 century the land surfaced again, the
aristocracy renovated the village and the inhabitants left; from the 18th
century the situation changed and the people came back; in 1970, the bradyseism
emptied the city; now it lives again thanks to having it’s antique splendour
being re-established.
Rione Terra – from P.R. Klein – X1X century