Expositor's Bible Commentary Commentary Acts 28:13

"And from thence we made a circuit, and arrived at Rhegium: and after one day a south wind sprang up, and on the second day we came to Puteoli;" — Acts 28:13 (ASV)

From Syracuse the ship “set sail” for Rhegium, an important harbor at the toe of Italy and on the Italian side of the Strait of Messina. Docking there to await a more favorable breeze, they sailed the next day when a southerly wind began to blow and made the 180 miles up the coast of Italy to Puteoli in only two days. Puteoli was a resort city on the Bay of Naples, the port city of Neapolis (modern Naples) and the principal port of southern Italy. There many grain ships from Egypt docked, and there Julius and his contingent disembarked with Paul and his party.