Photos and the City

Category: Italia

Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli

A rainy afternoon was the pefect excuse to spend some hours at the archeological museum – even that wasn´t any light in two of the rooms with all the marbles, still don´t know why, but it made me miss the famous buttocks of Venus Callipyge – there are so many beautiful artifacts, I might be going back there this autumn.

Founded in the 1750s by Charles III of Spain the museums hosts a huge collections of Roman and Greek artifacts from Pompeii, Stabiae and Herculaneum.

And suddenly one had to wait in line – I was reaching the Gabbinete, the “Secret Room”!

is the name of the Bourbon Monarchy gave the private rooms in which they held their fairly extensive collection of erotic or sexual items, mostly deriving from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Access was limited to only persons of mature age and known morals.(Wikipedia)

My morals seemed known enough – I was allowed to enter…

Museo Archeologico di Napoli

Merken

16/06/2016
O Dolci Mio!

While I´m already busy and excited planning this years trip to Southerin Italy I realised there are still a lot of pictures from last year. To ease back into posting let´s start with something sweet. You can´t visit Naples and not try the huge variety of dolci: fruit tarts, sfogliatella, babà (for which I didn´t care that much, sorry about that Napoli), struffoli (didn´t try those), cannoli, granita and much more. A lot of the pasticceria offer miniversions of all the dolci, the best way to try everything without feeling too guilty!

La Sfogliatella Mary – probably one of the most famous and most loved pasticceria. Located at Galeria Umberto.

But just eat your way through the city, I don´t believe there is any place in Naples that won´t serve you delicious food and dolci!

14/06/2016
Quartieri Spagnoli

It´s about time to get lost in the narrow alleys of the Spanish Quarters! Football inspired streetart and SSC Napoli devotional items on every corner, laundry, roaring vespas, children playing (and sometimes even driving the vespas), neighbours talking over the streets, little shops and bars and thousands of little (and bigger) shrines everywhere!

There’s an intimacy here in this working class neighborhood where so much action–love affairs, arguments, jokes, happen right out in the open, right before my eyes. I walk past altars put up for someone’s mamma, street level doors open to family kitchens, and my eyes meet a signorina as she stirs at the stove. Often tables from those kitchens are simply moved out to the street–so what I thought at first must be a great family restaurant, is actually simply a great family dining al fresco outside their front door, giving me a smile as I pass by. Susan Vanallen

08/03/2016