Naples - Italy

Naples (NA)

Campania (Italy)

Naples, a city of many faces
In the shadow of Vesuvius, tourism has ancient roots: the footsteps of the Greeks, refined and aristocratic Roman emperors built their villas and luxurious oasis of peace along the entire perimeter of the Gulf.
It is no accident that the peculiar magic of this ancient civilization continues to generate, at the dawn of the third millennium, more and new opportunities for wonder: the regeneration of monumental memories and traditions - folklore, gastronomy, genuine crop - which feared irretrievably compromised, events and revue all worthy of the great international circuits, new life for artistic and scientific.
One does not count, in Naples, the art treasures to be: the old town, protected by UNESCO world heritage, palaces, churches, catacombs and underground routes, the Archaeological Museum, the places of power around the medieval and Renaissance thickened Castel Nuovo and Royal Palace, the unforgettable waterfront from Castel dell 'Ovo in Posillipo.
The hilly area of Vomero offers at the locations in an exemplary restoration and reinstallation of the Palazzo Reale di Capodimonte and the Certosa di San Martino, museum collections of the most important in the world.
A path leads into the city of the twentieth century, including many emergency planning and architecture worthy of note, to the rationalist architecture of the Mostra d'Oltremare, with the park and sports facilities and exposure, a short distance, the City of Science demonstrates the recovery facilities of industrial archeology and the originality of a scientific tradition that is renewed.
Unusual and surprising, then, the exploration of new places of contemporary art: the monumental buildings such as the PAN, Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, the Mother, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina Vecchia, a unique admired throughout the world, like the Stations' art of the underground, tangibly illustrate the horizons original a cultural policy last sighted.
Naples, ultimately, remains to the end, even amid the difficulties and contradictions are common to all the great metropolis, a reality beyond the ordinary, to live, enjoy, enjoy, with all the senses: art for the thickness and civilization that has indelibly marked its history for its mild climate, and accompanying day and night shows, theater festivals, music, exhibitions, fairs, religious events, for 'opportunity' greedy ', the discovery of a centuries-old culinary tradition, the flavors of the sea and the products 'traditional' shops (mozzarella, pizza, DOCG wines, a varied and delicious pastries) in all variations of the many knowledgeable local historians or craft shops most unexpected and hidden.