Naples
The city has a big feel. Walking around the vibrant city is being part of the contrast of light a shadow and the personality of the people of this historic city. Narow, lauyndry-linee alleways, broad streets, scooters and subways. It is all here. It is a city where people live in the city, and live in public. This is not a place where people jot from their homes to a work place and back. The streets are extensions of their living rooms.
Don't just visit the city in the day and leave. Plan to be there between 5 pm and 8 pm for La Passeggiata, the evening stroll along via Toledo. Yeah, that is the wonderful experience of Napoli.
Naples is a city of real people, here a very everyday person makes up bouquets of wild flowers to sell.
Soccer is big in Italy and even bigger in Naples.
Streets are like shrines to the soccer players.
Galleria Umberto was built built between 1887 and 1890, and was the cornerstone in the decades-long rebuilding of Naples—called the risanamento —that lasted until World War I.
Galleria Umberta has a massive doomed glass and iron ceiling It was modeled after Milan's Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II.
Piazza del Plebiscito, named after the October 21, 1860 plebiscite that brought Naples into the unified Kingdom of Italy. The piazza has the Royal Palace (east, the church of San Francesco di Paola (west) with its hallmark twin colonnades extending to each side. Other buildings are the Palazzo Salerno and, its mirror, the Prefecture Palace (on the left arm of the church).
The streets of Naples are full of colour.
Galleria Principe di Napoli, the Prince of Naples Galleria, completed in 1883, was he first major construction project in Naples after the unification of Italy.
When the Prince of Naples Galleria opened it was a small shopping centre and a social gathering place for residents of the area, including the students frm the Academy of Art which is beside the galleria.
It is not as well maintained as the Galleria Umberto I which opened in 1890, but I like the authentic feel found here.
If pushed to have some statement about being in Naples, it would probably be... markets.
During the day there is non-stop activity at the street markets.
Every thish you could imagin!