On top of the Quartieri Spagnoli sits Vomero watching over the city. Offering the most stunning view on the bay of naples, beautiful buildings and lots and lots of stairs… It used to be farmland and looks back on a agricultural tradition – something you would expect when you visit this urban area today. It […]
It was on the afternoon of August 24th 79 AD when an enormus eruption of Vesuvius buried several cities including Herculaneum for centuries until the first major excavation in 1738. The diggins and findings in (modern) Ercolaneo and Pompeii initialized the Neoclassicism in Europe – motifs from the roman sites began to appear on furniture, […]
This was kind of my daily route down to Via Toledo and back up to my apartement – straight through the spanish quarters (Quartieri Spagnoli). And every time there was something new to discover, shrines, murals, cute dogs, ladies selling something out of their kitchen window, kids on a Vespa, tiny little front gardens, tiny […]