Before Capri, before Sorrento, and long before the Amalfi Coast became one of Italy’s most recognisable images, the elite of ancient Rome looked elsewhere: emperors, senators and aristocrats chose the Campi Flegrei, a coastline shaped by fire and overlooking a luminous sea, where villas, thermal baths and harbours turned leisure into an art form.
This was the Roman Riviera, an oasis devoted to otium: political encounters far from the Forum, banquets by the sea and residences built to impress.
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