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Cuma, in brief.

Cave of the Sibyl, first Greek colony in Italy.

The first Greek colony on the Italian mainland, on the Campi Flegrei coast.

Its archaeological park holds the Cave of the Sibyl, the long rock-cut gallery where Virgil placed the prophetess who guided Aeneas to the underworld.

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Tufa ruins below the acropolis of Cumae, Italy's first Greek colony

Cumae Archaeological Park

The first Greek colony on the Italian mainland: acropolis temples, a sacred way and the tuff gallery called the Cave of the Sibyl.

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