See you Napoli and then die
you"This way it recites this famous proverb, and in these few words are reassumed the spirit and the enthusiasm that generally animate the tourist in visit in the splendid city partenopea.
You immediately comes into contact with centuries of traditions that anchor mixing together today they subsist. Ancient works that anchors in the XXI century survive to the modern era: from the art orafa, to which a district is devoted in the heart in Naples, to the famous creators of shepherds, to the " impagliaseggias ", that they work the straw of the armchairs and the chairs, that they still sell often for the roads with their wheelbarrows hauled to hand to the artisans that work the beaten iron.
And that to say some artist that succeeds in making to return in life old dolls and you wastes in his laboratory, called note "The hospital of the dolls"?
Napoli with its buildings, is a sort of open book: every monument is a piece of
history that brings back to the varied dynasties that succedutes are him to the government
of the city.
The Unesco has declared the urbanistic wealths in Naples "patrimony of the
humanity": an immense patrimony that has gone realizing from the VII sec. a.C. up to
the nearest monuments to us.
Not only museums, pinacoteche, castles, handed ancient, fountains and parks but also churches,
over 200, that guard sculptural and pictorial masterpieces of enormous value and rare
beauty in their inside.
A
particular sign deserves the historical center of the city, true sky opened museum, with
an architectural and artistic excursus that from the plant Greek-Roman, with the Greek
boundaries and Romans, the excavations of St. Lawrence Maggiore, the division in Decumani
and Hinges handed to our days, through well 25 centuries of history, during which
churches, noble buildings, cloisters and fountains were built.
The structure of the ancient center in Naples is ancient, and deep on three aces, that go
from west east (the ancient Decumanis), intersected from streets (the ancient Hinges),
with orientation north-south, forming so the isolated rectangular (the ancient Insulaes).
The Decumano
superior drift his name from two boundaries of the II sec. you build to support of
the Theater Romano, whose rests are still visible in the today's Street of the Anticaglia.
Along this axle ancient churches as S. Giovanni rise to Carbonara, S. Maria of
Donnaregina, over that the hospital of the Incurable ones, in which it
finds the pharmacy, true artistic jewel, built in 700.
The greatest Decumano corresponds to the actual street of the
Courts, so call because it finishes near Castel Capuano from the 500 center of the
administration of the justice.
Exceptional the concentration of buildings and churches along this axle, in a
stratification that doesn't know precedents: from the ancient rests Greek-Romans under the
church of S. Lawrence Great, and under the Cathedral, to the conventual complex of the
Girolaminis, to the actual center of the Conservatory, S. Pietro to Maiella,
to the pious Mountain of the Mercy, with the attached important pinacoteca, where cloths
of the Neapolitan school of the XVII and the XVIII sec. is guarded.
The inferior Decumano, popularly says Spaccanapoli, because
Naples seems to break in two equal parts, it corresponds Benedict Croce and street to the
actual street S. Biagio of the Booksellers.
Splendid the churches that lean out along this ancient axle, from the church of the Jesus
Nuovo, to the Church of S. Chiara, wanted by Roberto I of Angị, built around
the extraordinary cloister of the Clarisses.
Continuing yourself reaches the S. Domenico Great Plaza where the Basilica can be visited,
built around the XIII sec. AD, and then still the Chapel Sansevero can be visited, the
small church of S. Angelo to Nile, S. Gregorio Armenian, that rises on one of the more
known roads of the historical center in the world, with his market of shepherds and art
presepiale.
The
historical center in Naples is also rich of splendid noble buildings, that testify the
importance of this ancient nucleus, lived by the rich ones and aristocrats families of the
epoch: they are examples of it the Building Carafa of Maddaloni, Building
Marigliano, Building Filomarino and so many others.
You cannot be done to less less than make a brief standstill to admire the splendid front
doors and the marvelous inside courtyards of these buildings, almost all of
sixteenth-century epoch.
But Naples is also the nice hospitality of his inhabitants, so quick, perspicacious and
prodigal of suggestions to whom asks help, and of wisecracks in every street angle. To
come to Naples means to totally have involved from the chaos that it reigns sovereign and
that of it ago an alive metropolis, colored, that offers always new and amusing pictures
of daily life.
The
confectionery and culinary art partenopea recalls centuries of noble and conventual
traditions and founds on products irripetibili, thanks to the climate, to the sun in
Naples, to the prodigality of a particularly fertile earth, and to the creativeness of the
people partenopeo, that has known how to elaborate flat savory in their typical
Mediterranean simplicity.
The bread, the pizza, the tomato, with his varied uses, the mythical mozzarella; can the
" friariellis " be eaten in which other place, even past in frying pan with
garlic, oil and peperoncino?
Dulcis in fundo... the sweets. From the pastiera to the babà to the sfogliatelles, to the
delicious sweets of the Christmas tradition.
The
tourist resumption in Naples, after years of abandonment and of I degrade, it is tangible:
all it takes is walking for the stradines of the historical center, that swarm with places
where can be eaten and to drink with the friends and to listen to good music up to late
time: from Plaza Pretty to Plaza of the Plebiscite there is not that the
embarrassment of the choice: from the typical restaurants, to the fasts food, to the
enoteches, beer house, literary coffee.
All it takes is moving themselves toward Castel of the Ovo and the Suburb Marinari to be
crushed by an atmosphere all marinara, where you can be drunk or to also eat a caponata or
an impepata of mussels to the open one in full winter, thanks to the mildest climate.
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