Parco Virgiliano
Clifftop park of terraced gardens with sweeping views over the bay to Vesuvius and Capri.
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This guide to Parco Virgiliano in Naples starts with a strange question: what do you feed a slave who just broke your favorite cup? The answer belongs to Publius Vedius Pollio, a wealthy friend of the emperor Augustus, whose hidden villa Pausilypon once stood on the headland below, with a private theater and fish tanks holding moray eels some said he trained to eat men. When a cupbearer shattered a goblet at dinner, Pollio gave an order nobody at the table expected. Look down at the green headland of Gaiola, still hiding the villa's ruins beneath the pines.
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