General information:
Province: Napoli
The beautiful Naples, the city of the love
and the gourmets. It is the preferred destination of whoever visits
the South of Italy and love the art, the culture, the traditions and
the good kitchen. Near the Vesuvius, Naples on extends for around 8
Kms along the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea, giving the name to the
whole gulf. The third city of Italy for population it can be
considered the capital of the South of Italy. Very well
developed are the commercial and the touristic port, that both
represent the principal voices of its economy.
Historical outlines
The origin of the first urban nucleus of the actual city of Naples
date back to the X century B.C., founded by the Rodiis with the name
of Partenope. Between the VII and VI century B.C. the Cumanis built
more to east Neapolis. The new city preserved language and Greek
traditions also under the Roman dominion, it was important
commercial and residential center, contended - to the fall of the
empire - from Goths and Byzantines and, subsequently, from the
Longobardis. Under the dominion of Bisanzio, Naples crossed a period
of civil and cultural rebirth. From 1140 to 1266, governed first
from the Norman and then from the Svevis, it was an important city
of the Kingdom that had its center to Palermo. It became capital in
1266, with the sovereign Angevins and then with the Aragonese
dynasty. From 1503, for more than two centuries, it was the Spanish
vicereign. A controversial phase, punctuated by episodes of
rebellion and shortly interrupted only by an Austrian government.
With Charles of Borbone, in 1734, Naples returned to be the capital
of an autonomous Kingdom. Since then, with the intervals of the
Republic Partenopea (1799) and of the French decade, the Borboni
governed up to the unity of Italy.
To visit:
S. Gennaro Catacombs, National Archaeological Museum, Naples
underground, archaeological excavations of Castel Nuovo, excavations
of S.Lorenzo Maggiore, Roman Thermal , Grave of Virgilio,Villa of
the Pausilypon, Roman Villa of Lucullo. |