• Diana OItalyViaggiatore
    A grand shopping mall that was built in 1873 but never took off.
    What's left of a Greek era (2500 years old) wall/tower. I'm standing outside the city at the time.Painted ceramic tile from the late 1800s showing Napoli at the time.Dante. This used to be a statue of the King of Naples but Napolean tore it down when he conquered itOne of the largest streets. The Spanish made it when they conquered Naples in the 1730s.When Naples was forcibly unified with Italy, Garibaldi made his "welcome to the fold" speech here.Mussolini built this brutalist style building to welcome Hitler during the fascist era.A plague tower (left), a castle that got converted to a church (middle), and the old church (right).If there's any semblance of a street (or sidewalk), there are mopeds going down it.A year round Christmas market.When you're lucky, there are those metal pylons to duck behind when a car drives by.The street our Airbnb was on.A car going down the street our Airbnb was on. It barely fit.There were shrines like this all over the city.A newer mall with actual stores and a nice astrology themed mosaic.Mount Vesuvius in the distance.The oldest castle in Naples, built in the 1100s.The poorly preserved remains of a Roman villa. A 1960s apartment building is attached to it.

    Naples

    29 giugno 2023, Italia ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C

    Naples was a totally different flavor than the rest of Italy. Tiny tiny streets that nonetheless had cars and mopeds zooming down them. Spirited conversations in the streets day and night. Crawling with people but notably mostly not tourists, just people living their lives. They had some of the oldest ruins we saw (several remains of walls that dated back 2500 years to greek times) which nonetheless were barely acknowledged other than a viewport down and a fence to keep people from falling in. If you read about the history of this city, it all makes a lot of sense. I thought this place was the most vibrant city we went to.Leggi altro

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