Category: Italia

  • Pozzuoli

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    Early morning I made my way to the train station, to catch a train to Baia to visit the underwater archaeological park with a glass bottom boat. But as I´ve already told you I got the wrong train and had to go all the way etc and when I called them to change my booking for the afternoon boat, I was told that all boat tours had to be cancelled because of the rough sea. So I just decided to leave the train at Pozzuoli, take a walk around the city and then take the bus to the Campi Flegreri and the Solfatara volcano.

    Macellum di Pozzuoli

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    The market building of the Roman city of Puteoli was excavated in the 18th century and first misidentified as the city’s “serapeum” or Temple of Serapis.

    Pozzuoli started as Greek settlement until it became a Roman one in 194 BC and the food market was built between the late first and early second century AD.

    The building was in the form of an arcaded square courtyard, surrounded by two-storey buildings. Shops lined the marble floored colonnade forming an arcade with 34 grey granite columns. The main entrance and vestibule were positioned on a main axis, which lined up across a tholos in the centre of the square to the exedra for worship which had a porticoformed by four large cipollino marble columns. (Wikipedia)

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    Pozzuoli Harbour

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    During Greek times Pozzuoli (back then called Dicaearchia) and also Roman times was the main port for Campania, the grain ships from Alexandria and all over the Roman world. Also for goods exported from Campania, including blown glass, mosaics, wrought iron, and marble. Nearby Miseum was the largest Roman naval base and it was also the site of the Roman Dictator Sulla’s country villa, where he died in 78BC.

    Pozzuoli was the major trading harbour under the Romans.

    It was the harbour where the apostle Paul landed on his way to Rome, He stayed for seven days and his journey by the Appian Way to Rome.

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    l`Anfiteatro Flavio

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    The Anfiteatro Flavio Puteolano is the third largest Roman amphitheatre located in Italy, it was probably built by the same architect who had designed the Roman Colosseum. There was enough space for 50.000 spectators.

    The site of the structure was chosen at the nearby crossing of roads from Naples, Capua and Cumae. It was abandoned when it was partially buried by eruptions from the Solfatara volcano. During the Middle Ages, the marble used on the exterior was stripped, but the interior was left alone and is perfectly preserved. (Wikipedia)

    When you´ve been to the Colosseum in Rome you probably remember the huge crowds of tourists, in Pozzuoli, I was almost alone all the time, the few people visiting got really lost in the huge complex.

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    After some lunch and caffé, I was ready to go on to the Campi Flegreri and the Solfatara. I found a bus stop, asked someone and started waiting. After about one hour I was still waiting, others waited too but for different buses and absolutely none were coming and nobody knew why… So the Campi Flegreri and the volcano have to wait for another time! I went back to the train station and took the next train to Baia to visit the old Roman Terme di Baia.

  • Spaccanapoli

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    After saying goodbye to the Museo di Capodimonte I walked back town to Spaccanapoli – the old town of Napoli. I walked without a plan and just got lost in the little alleys.

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    Spaccanapoli – the old town of Napoli – the beating heart of the city and a place named of “Outstanding Universal Value” by the UNESCO.

    Its origins go back to its foundation as Parthenope or Palaepolis in the 9th century B.C., subsequently re-established as Neapolis (New City) in 470 B.C. It is therefore one of the most ancient cities in Europe, whose current urban fabric preserves a selection of outstanding elements of its long and eventful history, as expressed in its street pattern, its wealth of historic buildings and parks, the continuation of many of its urban and social functions, its wonderful setting on the Bay of Naples and the continuity of its historical stratification. (UNESCO)

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  • Real Bosco di Capodimonte

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    The view from my Airbnb in Naples never let me down! The next morning I woke up, had some coffee and made my way through the Quarteri Spagnoli in direction of the Castel Nuovo. From there I wanted to take a bus up to the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte.

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    My favourite fruttivendolo just around the corner from my apartment.

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    I met some demonstrations, this was number one with mostly students in front of the Municipio.

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    Found the Castel Nuovo, the bus that would bring me to the Real Bosco di Capodimonte and another demonstration. It was a busy day for Naples!

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    Real Bosco di Capodimonte

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    The vast collection at the museum traces its origins back to 1738. During that year King Charles VII of Naples and Sicily (later Charles III, king of Spain) decided to build a hunting lodge on the Capodimonte hill, but then decided that he would instead build a grand palace,…to house the fabulous Farnese art collection which he had inherited from his mother, Elisabetta Farnese, last descendant of the sovereign ducal family of Parma. (Wikipedia)

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    Later on, the collection was getting bigger and bigger, the palace had to be enlarged. Today you could probably spend a few days at the museum to explore everything. It´s way too much for a single visit!

    The Capodimonte Museum boasts 47,000 works of art that form one of the largest and most complex collections of medieval, early modern, modern and contemporary art in the world. In 126 galleries spread across 151,000 square feet, works of the great artists are exhibited such as: Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Raphael, Titian, Botticelli, Simone Martini, Giovanni Bellini, Colantonio, Artemisia Gentileschi, Jusepe de Ribera, Battistello, Luca Giordano, Mattia Preti, Francesco Solimena, the Carracci, Guido Reni, Lanfranco, Bruegel the Elder, and Van Dyck to name a few. (Arts & Culture)

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    The museum is surrounded by a vast park and offers an amazing view over the bay of Naples. Even more dramatic with a rain front coming in all of the sudden!

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