Tag: Phlegrean Fields

  • The Earth’s Entrances to the Underworld

    The Earth’s Entrances to the Underworld

    There’s a plain just east of Naples, Italy that smolders away. I’ve been to a place like that before, on the island of St. Lucia, a large, collapsed volcanic crater called Sulphur Springs. It’s been dormant since the 1700s, but it doesn’t seem that way when you’re watching steam boil…