Naples, a city in southern Italy, sits on the Bay of Naples. Nearby is Mount Vesuvius, the still-active volcano that destroyed nearby Roman town Pompeii. Dating to the 2nd millennium B.C., Naples has centuries of important art and architecture. The city’s cathedral, the Duomo di San Gennaro, is filled with frescoes. Other major landmarks include the lavish Royal Palace and Castel Nuovo, a 13th-century castle.
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Guided Walking Tour: ‘Naples – Italy’ (Video)
Have you ever dreamed walking among the most important shop windows of the great Italian brands and finding yourself in a Medieval Castle in the middle of the sea? This can happen in Naples with THIS tour. We will start from Piazza dei Martiri, an elegant district of Naples surrounded by Rococò Palazzos and some in the Liberty style.
From here our walk, among anecdotes of architecture, history and archeology, will arrive at the foot of a medieval fortress: the “Castel dell’ovo” built in the 11th century. A Legend says that an alchemical “egg” is kept in its foundations, which explains the name, but the reality is that it was built on the ruins of a magnificent Roman villa overlooking the sea. In this tour I will then take you, to the feet of the Castle where among the bronze cannons, narrow prisons, you will admire the most beautiful view of the city seen from the sea.
As Goethe said in his Grand Tour “See Naples and Die, because no city is more beautiful then here. Naples is a Heaven” Your archaeologist waits for you, ciao! Raffaele is a Neapolitan Archaeologist with 12 years of field experience and he’s an Official Tour Guide of the Campania Region. He has a BA in Archaeology, a masters in Classical Archaeology and a Ph.D in Archeological Heritage. Also he works on archeological excavations in Naples. Since he was a child, he has always loved the ancient history of Greece and Rome as well as art from the Middle Ages to the 20th (1900s). He loves to meet new people!
City Views: ‘Naples – Italy’
Naples, a city in southern Italy, sits on the Bay of Naples. Nearby is Mount Vesuvius, the still-active volcano that destroyed nearby Roman town Pompeii. Dating to the 2nd millennium B.C., Naples has centuries of important art and architecture. The city’s cathedral, the Duomo di San Gennaro, is filled with frescoes. Other major landmarks include the lavish Royal Palace and Castel Nuovo, a 13th-century castle.
Top Aerial Travel Tours: Coastal Maine (Video)
In this video we show Coastal Maine and feature the towns of Rumford, Bar Harbor, Rockport, Camden, Belfast, Lincolnville Beach, Damariscotta, Bath, Boothbay Harbor, Wiscasset, Portland, Saco, Naples, and Kennebunkport.
Below are the places of interests we feature in this video of Maine.
RUMFORD (2:05) BAR HARBOR (3:00) Coco-Latte Cafe (3:27) 240 Main St, Bar Harbor DownEast Scenic Railroad (3:42) 8 Railroad Siding Rd, Hancock, ME (DownEastScenicRail.org) Village Green Park (4:29) 26 Mt Desert St, Bar Harbor Beer Works Restaurant (4:38) 119 Main St, Bar Harbor CJ’s Big Dipper (4:47) 150 Main St, Bar Harbor Agamont Park (5:24) 1 Main St, Bar Harbor Sunrise Cafe (5:57) 1 West St, Bar Harbor Stewman’s Lobster Pound (6:08) 35 West St, Bar Harbor Olis Trolley Tours (6:16) 1 West St, Bar Harbor LuLu’s Lobster Boat (6:28) 55 West St, Bar Harbor Bar Harbor Whale Tours (6:45) 119 Eden St, Bar Harbor (BarHarborWhaleWatch.com) Acadian Boat Tours (7:18) 119 Eden St, Bar Harbor (AcadianBoatTours.com) DownEast Windjammer Cruises (7:33) 1 Newport Dr, Bar Harbor White Birches Motel (8:08) 17 Thorsen Rd, Hancock Days Inn (8:22) 120 Eden St, Bar Harbor BELFAST (9:17) Nautilus Seafood & Grill (9:52) 3 Main St, Belfast Heritage Park (10:01) 25 Front St, Belfast LINCOLNVILLE BEACH (10:09) Lobster Pound (10:13) 2521 Atlantic Hwy, Lincolnville CAMDEN (10:22) Camden Hills State Park (10:22) 280 Belfast Rd, Camden Megunticook River Falls (10:55) 120-1968 Camden, ME Schooner Surprise (11:27) 1 Bay View St, Camden Camden Harbor Cruises Camden Public Landing, Camden Peter Ott’s on the Water Restaurant (11:56) 16 Bayview Landing, Camden, ME Savage Oakes Vineyard 175 Barrett Hills Rd, Union, ME Sweet Grass Winery & Distillery ROCKPORT (12:19) Rockport Marine Park (12:48) 1 Main St Rockport DAMARISCOTTA (12:55) Damariscotta River Cruises (13:26) 47 Main St, Damariscotta, ME Damariscotta River Grill (13:35) 155 Main St, Damariscotta BOOTHBAY HARBOR (13:50) Robinson’s Wharf (14:11) 20 Hendricks Hill Rd, Southport, ME Balmy Days Cruises (14:55) 42 Commercial St, Boothbay Harbor (BalmyDaysCruises.com) WISCASSET (15:30) Sprague’s Lobster (15:47) 22 Main St, Wiscasset, ME A Taste of Maine Restaurant (16:17) 161 Main St, Woolwich, ME BATH (16:40) Linwood E Temple Waterfront Park (17:13) 61 Commercial St, Bath, ME PORTLAND (17:51) Maine Narrow Guage Railroad (18:12) 49 Thames St, Portland, ME (MaineNarrowGuage.org) Sail Maine Community Sailing (18:25) 58 Fore St, Portland, ME Casco Bay Ferries (18:39) 56 Commercial St, Portland, ME (www.CascoBayLines.com) Portland Head Light (19:25) 12 Captain Strout Cir, Cape Elizabeth Cape Elizabeth Light (20:20) 15 Two Lights Ter, Cape Elizabeth SACO (20:55) KENNEBUNKPORT (21:31) Seashore Trolley Museum (21:31) 195 Log Cabin Rd, Kennebunkport, ME First Chance Whale Watch Cruises (21:49) 4 Western Ave, Kennebunk, ME (FirstChanceWhaleWatch.com) New England Eco Adventure Tours (23:03) 8 Western Ave, Kennebunk, ME (NewEnglandAdventures.com) Coastal Maine Kayak & Bike (23:13) 8 Western Ave, Kennebunk, ME Federal Jacks Restaurant (23:25) 8 Western Ave, Kennebunk, ME
Travel & Quarantines: Author Frances Mayes Writes Of Poet John Keats In Naples, Italy In 1820 (NYT)
From the New York Times (March 26, 2020):
I have seen Naples from his vantage of a ship anchored offshore — one of the most sublime locations in the world, that sweep of coast stacked with apricot, carmine, azure and rose villas; the blue, blue U of the harbor; the emphatic Vesuvius anchoring the view.
In October of 1820, typhus raged in Naples. With his artist friend, Joseph Severn, the British poet John Keats rocked in the city’s harbor for 10 days, not nearly the quaranta giorni — 40 days — that give us our word quarantine.
Before this journey, Keats always felt intense melancholy. In “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles for the First Time,” he wrote “… mortality / Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep.” (And in the smooth pentameter of “Ode to a Nightingale”: “I have been half in love with easeful death.”) Not a holiday, this voyage out of England was a desperate trip to the sunny climate of Italy. His cough had grown steadily worse. Since the morning he’d seen a splotch of blood on his pillow, he knew he had little chance of surviving the consumption that had invaded his lungs. His last-ditch: Go to Rome. Meanwhile, exile at sea.
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