Ferries from Pozzuoli

Pozzuoli is the ferry port for the Campi Flegrei, the volcanic field west of Naples, with four sailings between 06:25 and 19:00 on the 80-minute crossing to Ischia. Caremar and Medmar both work it. The town is built on ground that rises and falls measurably with volcanic activity — the Roman market building by the harbour has bands of marine molluscs bored into its columns, recording centuries of the land sinking and lifting again. For travellers it is the closest mainland departure to Ischia after Naples itself, and the queues are shorter. The Roman amphitheatre a few streets inland is the third largest in Italy and among the best preserved, with its underground chambers still intact.