Monte Echia
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Monte Echia is a rocky promontory, entirely made of yellow tuff, located in the Pizzofalcone area, in the San Ferdinando district of Naples.
This promontory projects into the Gulf of Naples between the Borgo Santa Lucia to the east, the Chiaia basin to the west, and overlooks the Megaride islet to the south.
On it, the Cumaeans founded Parthenope at the end of the 8th century BC, although the earliest archaeological evidence dates to the third quarter of the 8th century, that is, between 750 and 720 BC, not far from the earliest phases of Pithecusa and the settlement of Cumae.
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