Vivara

Infobox Islands
name = Vivara


image caption = The crater of Vivara
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country = Italy
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country admin divisions = Campania
country admin divisions title 1 = Province
country admin divisions 1 = Naples
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Vivara is a satellite islet of Procida, one of the three main islands in the Gulf of Naples. (The other two are Ischia and Capri.)

Geography

Vivara flanks Procida to the south-west and is connected to it by a bridge. Vivara is a crescent-shaped remnant ridge of an ancient volcanic crater, part of the Phlegraean Fields. It is now a nature reserve of 35.63 ha, established under D.M. 24.06.02. In 1905, Giuseppe De Lorenzo described it thus :

History

Recent archaeological digs have uncovered fragments of Mycenaean pottery, left by Greeks who were there many centuries before the Ancient Greeks colonized the bay.

Notes and references

External links

* [http://www.isoladivivara.it/ Gruppo Naturalistico Isola di Vivara] it