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Posillipo is a residential quarter of Naples
Naples

Naples is a city in southern Italy, the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples. The city is known for its rich history, art, culture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,800 years old....
, along the northern coast of the Gulf of Naples
Gulf of Naples

The Gulf of Naples is located in the south western coast of Italy . It opens to the west into the Mediterranean Sea. It is bordered on the north by the cities of Naples and Pozzuoli, on the east by Mount Vesuvius, and on the south by the Sorrentine Peninsula and its main town Sorrento, Italy; the Peninsula separates it from the Gulf of Sal...
; it is called Pusilleco in the Neapolitan language
Neapolitan language

Neapolitan is the language of the city and region of Naples, Campania . On October 14, 2008 the Neapolitan language was accepted by a law by the Region of Campania....
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houses at water's edge all have at least small piers or landings, and there are even a few small coves with breakwaters along the way.






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Posillipo is a residential quarter of Naples
Naples

Naples is a city in southern Italy, the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples. The city is known for its rich history, art, culture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,800 years old....
, along the northern coast of the Gulf of Naples
Gulf of Naples

The Gulf of Naples is located in the south western coast of Italy . It opens to the west into the Mediterranean Sea. It is bordered on the north by the cities of Naples and Pozzuoli, on the east by Mount Vesuvius, and on the south by the Sorrentine Peninsula and its main town Sorrento, Italy; the Peninsula separates it from the Gulf of Sal...
; it is called Pusilleco in the Neapolitan language
Neapolitan language

Neapolitan is the language of the city and region of Naples, Campania . On October 14, 2008 the Neapolitan language was accepted by a law by the Region of Campania....
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Geography

The houses at water's edge all have at least small piers or landings, and there are even a few small coves with breakwaters along the way. These small harbors are the nuclei for separate, named communities such as Marechiaro and Gaiola
Gaiola

Gaiola is a comune in the Province of Cuneo in the Italy region Piedmont, located about 80 km southwest of Turin and about 13 km southwest of Cuneo....
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History

It is mentioned in classical Greek and Roman sources. Indeed, the Greeks first named this rocky, wooded height at the western end of the Bay of Naples Pausílypon, "respite from worry". There are Roman ruins at waters edge and just before the cape at the end of the Bay of Naples, one can even see the openings of the air-shafts that ventilated the tunnel that led to the residence of Vedius Pollio
Vedius Pollio

Publius Vedius Pollio was a Ancient Rome equestrian of the 1st century BC, and a friend of the Roman emperor Augustus, who appointed him to a position of authority in the Roman province of Asia ....
. Those premises are partially intact upon the cliff, and include an amphitheater on a height.

The area remained largely undeveloped until a road, via Posillipo, was built between 1812-24. That road starts at sea-level at the Mergellina harbor and moves up the coast, roughly parallel to the shore.

The area has been heavily overbuilt since the end of WWII, but contains some notable historical buildings and landmarks. Among these is the Rosebery Villa, the Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 President's residence when he is in Naples. Posillipo has given its name to Naples
Naples

Naples is a city in southern Italy, the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples. The city is known for its rich history, art, culture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,800 years old....
' waterpolo team, traditionally one of the most prominent in the world.

Famous residents

Posillipo is the birthplace of Franco Alfano
Franco Alfano

Franco Alfano was an Italy composer and piano. Though today best known for completing Giacomo Puccini's unfinished opera Turandot in 1926, he had considerable success with his own works during his lifetime....
, the Italian composer and pianist best known for completing Turandot
Turandot

Turandot is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. Though Puccini's first interest in the subject was based on his reading of Friedrich Schiller's adaptation of the play, his work is most nearly based on the earlier text Turandot by Carlo Gozzi....
. It may well also have been the residence of Virgil
Virgil

Publius Vergilius Maro was a classical Roman poet, best known for three major works?the Bucolics , the Georgics and the Aeneid?although several Appendix Vergiliana are also attributed to him....
, the Roman poet of, most famously, the 'Aeneid
Aeneid

The Aeneid is a Latin Epic poetry written by Virgil in the late 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Troy who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Rome....
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