Pozzuoli unfolds as seen from the Rione Terra. In the background rises the Monte Nuovo, the youngest volcanic feature of the Campi Flegrei formed by the 1538 eruption.
Valerio Muscella for NPR
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Valerio Muscella for NPR
Italy’s Campi Flegrei volcano is depicted in Greek and Roman mythology as the entrance to the underworld. Its eruptions thousands of years ago blocked out the sun, turning summer into winter. And now the volcano is stirring in a way it hasn’t for centuries. We go to the volcano outside Naples to understand its new activity.