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Pozzuoli
[ pot-swoh-lee; Italian pawt-tswaw-lee ]
noun
- a seaport in SW Italy, near Naples: Roman ruins.
Pozzuoli
/ ±è´Ç³Ùˈ³Ù²õ·Éɔ˱ô¾± /
noun
- a port in SW Italy, in Campania on the Gulf of Pozzuoli (an inlet of the Bay of Naples): in a region of great volcanic activity; founded in the 6th century bc by the Greeks. Pop: 78Â 754 (2001)
Example Sentences
Schools in Pozzuoli and two nearby neighbourhoods will be closed on Thursday so building stability checks can be carried out, the Corriere Della Sera newspaper reported.
In the nearby town of Pozzuoli, close to the quake's epicentre, one injured person was pulled from the rubble of a partially collapsed house.
On that occasion, some 40,000 people were temporarily evacuated from nearby Pozzuoli.
About a third is partially submerged beneath the Bay of Pozzuoli, while the remaining two-thirds are home to about 400,000 people.
Born Sofia Scicolone in Rome in 1934, she grew up in the Pozzuoli slums during World War II. Loren splashed onto the Hollywood scene in 1951, at age 16.
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