Together with the various species of birds stopping there during the long migrations, the coots populated permanently, always numerous, the vast coastal wetland. According to Emperor Nero's plans, the long navigable canal connecting Rome to Pozzuoli had to start there.
The project was ready, the decision taken, but the death of the emperor blocked the realization forever. It was then in the Middle Ages that an artificial lake was created and since the coots, or "Follicole" as they were called in dialect, were always flying around the new basin took the name of Licola. Such an important presence of the sought-after water birds captured the attention of passionate hunters of the young Bourbon court in the eighteenth century, much less King Charles, who in fact began to frequent that hunting site like the many others scattered around the capital. It was during one of those jokes that the great marine painter Claude Joseph Vernet portrayed Charles of Bourbon hunting coots on Lake Licola, the painting, which is also a precious document of the time, exhibited at the Capodimonte Museum.
Of light sand, the result of the erosion of the coastal tuff wall, the Lido di Licola is partly open to free use and partly occupied by bathing establishments equipped with all services.
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