Ancient history indicates Cuma as the oldest and northern most colony of Greece whose foundation dates to the first part of the VIII c. B.C., by the Greeks from Euboea. It was fundamental for the development of what the Romans later called Magna Grecia, it looks out over the sea, and was built on a promontory from which they could control trade in the western Mediterranean.

The Acropolis is visitable, the highest part of city, where we can admire the ruins of the temple of Apollo perhaps the oldest building, the ruins of the temple of Jupiter that was later transformed into a Christian church, the Sybil’s cave and the Roman Crypt: it is a wide, 180 m. long tunnel that runs through Monte di Cuma from one side to another, excavated to connect the lower city to the port area.

We reach the Acropolis through the Arco Felice, 20 m. tall and 6 m. wide, as a single archway, was erected during the reign of Domitian, at the point where Monte Grillo had to be cut through to allow the passage of the road.

Visitors remain fascinated by not only what the city represents from historical and archaeological point of view, but also by the tangible feeling of plunging into the myth, and legend that no other archaeological site in Europe permits better than Cuma.