The Poggio Park

The Poggio Park is a recent urban park in Naples. Rises in the residential area of the Colli Aminei. Designed in the nineties, the construction began in 1998 and was completed between 2000 and 2001. And 'situated in a limestone quarry used in the sixties for the construction of the near Rione Sapio; over the extraction of tufa, and in a state of neglect for many years, has finally arrived for projects in his area this park urban.The park has a playground for children, bleachers for spectators, which overlook a pond with a waterfall in the center of a semicircular shape as a platform for performances, and finally there is a lookout from which one can enjoy a splendid view over the old Town of Naples and the gulf in the direction of Mount Vesuvius. Near the park are the few visible remnants of a surviving Roman monument called "the distaff", destroyed in the '60s.