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CITY GUIDES
NAPOLI - NAPLES
| After the facelift received for the G7 talks, the city is reborn, and still
developing: clean (in some quarters) and enterprising, yet still as Neopolitan and
passionate as De Sica's "Sciuscią" and Rossellini's "Viaggio in
Italia". It is a metropolis suspended between East and West, unique in
Europe. It is many cities in one: the scintillating "quartiere barocco", the
sedate and miraculous San Gennaro, and the city of its little-known nobilty and centers of
international study. There's the folklore built up around Mt. Vesuvius. There's the
generousity of spirit in the Spanish quarter, the city's glorious past, its technological
aspirations. There's the baroque architecture, crowning and jewel of excess, which is well
worth a visit. From Certosa di S.Martino to the Chiesa del Gesł Nuovo; from the cloister
of the monastery of S.Chiara to S. Domenico Maggiore. |
| Altitude: 10 m. Pop.: 1.350.000 inhabitants Postal code: 80100 Country/Area code: (+39) 081 International Airport: Capodichino at 7 km from the center APT, information: piazza dei Martiri 58, tel. 081-405311, fax 081-401961 Information center: Central Train Station, tel 081-268779; Mergellina Train Station, tel 081-7612102 |
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