La Gaiola

In the anxious heart of Posillipo, in the middle of the crystalline sea of the Bay of Trentaremi, two rocks stand out connected by a thin arch that seems to draw the door to infinity, the only passage that, facilitated by the sea, can lead to an incomprehensible horizon .

On one of these islets, which is said to have been once connected to the mainland and artificially separated from it, and which today is part of the Submerged Park of Gaiola, stands a villa with an enchanting, privileged, unique position in the world, yet inexplicably abandoned.

Like sunburnt skin, the plaster fades in patches on his skin exposed to the merciless salt and its windows, without glass, pulsate with intense darkness, as if within those four walls the immensity of the Infinity.

"The cursed island" everyone calls it, but it is not the island itself that is frightening, but rather the inauspicious construction that was erected on it.

Each owner of the house, in the course of over a hundred years, has suffered misfortunes that culminated in suspicious deaths, suicides, drowning at sea.

So close to the mainland that it seems to stretch its arms to it, the island of Gaiola has thus conquered its ignoble fame.

And that it was Virgil, when he created an evocative school of esoteric magic there, who chained this land to a tragic fate, infecting the sea with his fatal potions, is not known.

That barren concrete scaffolding remains in the middle of the wilderness.

The angry and hostile gaze directed at the coast. In search of an enemy on which to vent the wrongs suffered, or an ally who appeases her anger by restoring the ancient glories and with them the diminished power.