Only a vowel changes in the adjective but the reference fo the poet Virgil remains in both cases, but the Vergilian Park should not be confused with the Virgilian one, already Park of the Remembrance. The Vergilian one is located behind the church of S. Mary of Piedigrotta.
And the reference to Virigil is linked, there, to the presence of what has been handed down since ancient times as the tomb of the author of the Aeneid, an imposing monument in opus reticulatum located at the entrance to the Crypta neapolitana, also known as Grotto of Posilippo, which is the gallery of over seven hundred meters dug into the tuff during Augustan age between Fuorigrotta and Mergellina, to connect the city of Naples to the Phlegraean area. A work attributed to the freedman and architect Lucius Cocceius Acto, author of the Crypta romana of Cumae and of the Portus iulius. And in addition to the tomb of the poet from Mantua, epic poet of the origins of Rome, in the park there is also, inside a grotto, the tomb of another great poet, who died in Naples in 1838: Giacomo Leopardi. His remains were transferred there from the church of San Vitale in Fuorigrotta which no longer exists, coinciding with the centenary of his death in 1939.
Nine years earlier, in 1930, on the occasion of the two thousandth anniversary of the Virgilian celebrations, the new city park had been inaugurated.
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Open daily from 10:00 am to 2:50 pm during winter months, and from 9:00 am to 7:00 pm during summer months.
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