Zoo di Napoli

Lo Zoo di Napoli lies in the Fuorigrotta district of Naples, inside the grounds of the Mostra d'Oltremare, and is one of the main attractions of the Campi Flegrei. It was created in 1940, stayed shut through the Second World War and opened properly on 25 October 1949 under Franco Cuneo and Angelo Lombardi. For a quarter of a century it was known across Europe as a research zoo, holding rare animals alongside a notable botanical collection and an architecturally significant layout by Luigi Piccinato; among its firsts were the world's first captive births of klipspringer and cinereous vulture and Europe's first gerenuk.

A long restoration between 2014 and 2016 rebuilt much of it to European standards. Today it is laid out as a great savannah with giraffes, zebras, wildebeest, waterbuck, nyala and hippos, a small savannah with Nile lechwe, an elephant house, an Australian area with wallabies and emus, a De Brazza's monkey area, and mixed habitats holding siamangs, seals, tapirs and bears.