Naples is the regional capital of Campania, a southern Italy region. Its inhabitants are over a million and they reach three millions in the whole metropolitan area. Naples has always had a world fame for the brightful image of its gulf dominated by the volcano Vesuvio. Naples was founded in the eighth century b.C. by greek colonists coming from Cuma (a little town near to Naples, still existing). The town was in the beginning called Partenope (VII b.C.) and then Neapolis (V b.C.). Naples importance grew with the Romans who endowed it with large roads and commercial infrastructures whose witnesses are the archeological findings in Naples, Campi Flegrei, Pompei, Oplonti, Ercolano, Capri. During the centuries Naples has passed through several foreign dominations keeping nonetheless the role of the most important town of southern Italy.