Water ways, from Naples to Miseno

Over time, the water-ways that lead from Naples to Miseno have mapped out the area and changed the lines of its appearance. They have shaped the landscape and developed intertwining networks across it, both above and below ground. At times these are visible, at times submerged. Here they are natural; there they are the result of human intervention. They are the signs of long-term phenomena, of large environmental and territorial transformations which have characterised the different interaction between man and landscape. In this perspective it is evident that integration of knowledge and an interdisciplinary approach to actions is all the more necessary. Analysis and reconstruction of the water-ways that lead from Naples to Miseno, a special section of our urban landscape, are the subject of research work that aims to identify and develop the qualitative relationship with the places where we live, woven into history and technique and unavoidably linked to the sea. The investigation route follows the traces of these ways from the city to the surrounding areas, filling in gaps and making hypotheses where traces have been lost. It focuses on defined architectural and archaeological points (such as springs and reservoirs), on the network elements, the aqueducts, and goes up the coast to the ports of Baia and Miseno, and the seabed. At the same time, analysis conducted on representative artifacts of archaeological sites in the Phlegraean area and on sunken tracks (both underground and under the sea) can be identified as parametric and, as a result of media mapping and thematic and dynamic support, representations of the region’s archaeological potential take shape that allow us to understand and plan for intervention work and land transformation.