the Flavian Amphitheatre, the third-largest Italian amphitheatre after the Colosseum and the Capuan Amphitheatre. The Via Appia passed through the comune of Quarto, entirely built on an extinguished crater. The Cave of Dogs, a famous tourist attraction during the early modern period, is on the eastern side of the Fields. Europe's youngest mountain, Monte Nuovo, is here. A WWF oasis lies beside the enormous Astroni crater. The tombs of Agrippina the Elder and Scipio Africanus are here. At Baiae, now in the of Bacoli, the most ancient hot spring complex was built for the richest Romans. It included the largest ancient dome in the world before the construction of the Roman Pantheon. Astronomical broadcaster and writer Patrick Moore used to cite these Fields as an example of why the impact craters on the Moon must be of volcanic origin, which was thought to be the case until the 1960s. There is a theory that the Campanian Ignimbrite super-eruption around about 39,280 ± 110 years ago contributed to the demise of Neanderthal Man, based on evidence from Mezmaiskaya cave in the Caucasus Mountains of southern Russia. See also List of volcanoes in Italy Phlegra (mythology) References Further reading External links Phlegraean Fields tour (i Campi Flegrei) Phlegraean Fields Volcanological Excursion to Campi Flegrei Historical and Geological Introduction to the Neapolitan area Campi Flegrei Volcano’s Ancient Cycle Seems to End in Large Eruption Calderas of Italy Campanian volcanic arc Landforms of Campania Geography of Naples Geography of the Metropolitan City of Naples Parks in Campania Volcanic crater lakes Submarine calderas Supervolcanoes VEI-7 volcanoes Volcanic fields Pleistocene calderas First 100 IUGS Geological Heritage Sites