Destination: Naples Bonita Ringtone 
Naples, a city to live, rather than to visit.
over 3 years ago I left behind Naples road to Rome in order to return to Spain after spending most certainly the best year of my life. My time in this city can only be described as an experience, at all levels, as Naples does not visit, not even studied or contemplated; Naples lives, or depending on the experience of each, to Naples survives .
Although Naples is located on one of the most beautiful bays of the Mediterranean, the first thing you get to get to it is a big slap in the making. Chaos, noise, mess ... are the first to welcome you decide to go in the jungle. It was like stepping back a few decades back in the 70 or 80. All this only on the way from Capodicchino to the hostel, going so if ... around the historic city center.
With a few hours in Naples to see how they meet each and every one of the topics of the Italian south, so different from Northern Italian: Neapolitan is a person as passionate as undisciplined, so proud and arrogant, so obsessed the image as a hopeless thug, gesturing to exhaustion and is understood by only communicating with their neighbors by screaming ... in each of the characters with whom you come across in this city appreciate how you meet all these topics. Nothing will go unnoticed here, every day will have new experiences, things that anywhere else in the world can you see ... simply cross the street ... just here you keep that value, not caring cars coming, but you whistle stop. Naples or hate you like or do not know if there will be the average, because despite being a chaotic city to the fullest, it is also charming and accomplished in love.
Overview of Naples
Focusing on the Naples historical center is the first thing one is a cluster of apparently abandoned neighborhoods where architectural discipline prevails, sets erected haphazardly, bonded houses struggling to rise up on each other and grab a few meters in front having space of their facades, making impossible labyrinthine alleys where the light can only be accommodated, churches literally invaded by houses., are common trace that draw the city. The least one can find harmony in the midst of general confusion is undoubtedly accidental or miraculous. If this first feature we add poverty city that boasts the region, it is understandable that a layman in the area may feel numb at first if you expect to find a typical European city and not something next to the third world.
vico da napoli
town of Naples (Vomero)
The term "next to the Third World" refers, in addition to the appearance of their houses away .... garbage at all hours, since the sun shines and stores typical Neapolitan open until it is collected, and if it is ... by the cleaning service. Because here the Camorra controls the collecting of them. Walking through the streets, you see peeling facades that fall hopelessly underpinned home interiors ... in the middle of this pack survives 90% of the Neapolitans, a city on the other hand appears and disappears behind the endless sheets, towels and other types of cloth hanging from every window and terrace, if we consider that the space between two walls that are facing them sometimes does not go beyond 2 meters, so that the castings are made from house to house, we can say metaphorically that Naples is a city hides behind his cast .... vesuvius and not those of the then speak.
Mille Colori Napoli (Naples yellow and red)
views
vesuvius
Naples is the capital of the European dark alleys of the labyrinthine neighborhoods, growth impulsive city marked by the need rather than capacity, is ultimately the chaotic capital of southern Italy. However, in the midst of urban warfare, there is certainly an amazing set of corners, as exciting as rare and unique scenic and so genuinely that are full of interest because of its beauty. Some of these neighborhoods have been designated sites of international interest by UNESCO itself.
Castell Nuovo
Piazza Plebiscito
Piazza Dante
Lungomare di napoli
Also typical of the city .... street markets where you can find absolutely everything, from coats and designer clothes to be defective and a bargain, even when authentic scams to sell you a package of snuff or a digital camera. Although in my opinion it's really great in Naples is the way they drive, whether children or older is incredible ... only worth seeing. Now imagine this whole set of characters transferred to Naples city traffic. I can assure you that if you think living there is a major cause of mortality in the city, apart from the dead of the Camorra, and if no bet is that the Neapolitan boasts a miraculous ability to impossible to survive in the midst of the most terrible way round I've ever seen. Forget the traffic lights, merely decorative items in the city, pedestrian crossings, which are only traces of paint that long ago someone forgot to erase the sense of circulation as soon as one can travel in one direction or do in contrast with the rest of movement ... more than half of the vehicles that supply the city streets are scooters motorcycles type, yes, all of which are occupied by households to complete (3, 4 and up to 5 people at once!), its maximum travel on two wheels which allow and, of course, helmets are conspicuous by their absence .... Naples is the only city in the world where there is no mandatory helmet closed, here the "honor" is only for the Neapolitan Mafia hitmen .... also discovered a genetic trait extremely strong in the Neapolitan: his compulsive habit of sounding the horn every 100 meters and take the headlights always on (including lamps) even if it's 3 pm and will have to leave the street with sunglasses. As I said, the Italian south is impulsive and extremely likes attention and be noticed. And so many more things could have because if there is something amazing in Naples is its people and traffic.
prinicipal Avenue Naples before he wakes up traffic
His peculiar way of collecting the purchase of trade down by throwing a bucket with a rope is one of the things that you can see this city.
Antique Cars
Shopping lemon granita.
Families On A Moto (3.4 Persons)
Cube Buy
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Well and finally I might leave as typical of Naples: DIEGO ARMANDO MARADONA .... is clear that it was a God of football, here too it is ... not only for the sale of multiple objects, balls and shirts with the symbol and the name of 10 argetino, but because there are altars to prove it.
Altar De Maradona in the Historic Centre
Of course, another unique experience and "best practice" is to attend a party of Naples, in the San Paolo stadium, one that many people said to shake literally nearby when Maradona was playing team. A stadium full of ancient and once, as well as the tiffossi of naples .... for an example (see video) ... There are many times that these elements attacked the police station, fill the stadium and fireworks vengalas, raise the tear gas the police and encouraging your team do not stop ringing without belts from the curve to the stadium.
(Napoli-Roma in the Coppa Italia)
In the historic center of the city, its neighborhoods described above, is precisely where it floats so clearer The other distinctive feature of the southern Italian: pride. The prying cast covering the face of the city here are replaced by country flags placed by the famous Italian tiffosi , as encouraged by the newly won World Cup (the other national religion). The slogan Forza Italia is repeated a thousand times in every brick of every street, every street in every neighborhood, in every neighborhood in every city, the 3 colors of the flag painted facades adorn the shops, even cars painted with the Italian tricolor replaced the windows and even after a few months guess the resignation of the people to remove them, victory is not what they are used in these neighborhoods, but the blows given by the harsh reality of life. The Italian flag is the only way to win attention and homage to the saints and madonnas patterns of each quarter.
flooded streets typical Neapolitan Italian flags
morning after winning the 2006 World
Some Neapolitan
not only proud but also in possession of a vicious evil, made a coffin with the French flag and a black ribbon on the door of the church in a small piazza.
coming to Naples
I mentioned earlier, perhaps last, the big problem of this city and this is none other than the crime. Naples is a city with one of their main economic activities for years and which relied heavily on the way crime was developed. Input port traffic of illegal goods around the creation of the now legendary Neapolitan Camorra , served to create an entire economic substructure throughout the city, although it does not seem that ultimately decided the manner and nature be. Capital of the mafia, the city came to organize in neighborhoods led several bands whose heads came to rule even the city. Thus, it is not surprising that one of the soundtracks of the city are continuing sirens of ambulances and carabinnieri and another of the sets of its streets are graffiti on the walls of each district with the name of the band prevailing in each location. If this topic interests you I encourage you to read the book Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano, after publishing a clear objective of the Neapolitan Camorra.
the book Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano
and the signature of one of the most famous street gangs Naples
Pizza world's oldest, if not born here uda what is the richest dish of Naples: the real Neapolitan pizza with tomato, your oil and Mozzarella Di Buffalo (this is the Pizza Margherita) one of the only 2 guys who served in Di Michelle's oldest pizzeria in the world. The pizza and pasta with its multitude of variations is the main Italian dish.
Naples is a place surrounded by extraordinary beauty. As I have said is based on one of the most beautiful bays of the Mediterranean indeed, islands world famous for its beauty and chosen to live the emperors of the ancient Roman empire as Capri (which I could not go, I must say, but remains for my next trip) Procida and Ischia. Walking on the avenue
Partenopea , bordering the same sea, and sitting down to dinner in one of his typical trattorias
watching the lighting of the city as night falls is priceless. And give back to the sea and watch the city's historic crown volcano Vesuvius, which buried it under 7 feet of ash in the city of Pompeii, is also something that impresses.
Napoli, the city controlled by Vesuvius ....
Pompeii, the city buried by Vesuvius ....
a city Pompeii .... sleep peacefully ...
Pompeii is one of the great archaeological wonders that still remain in a splendid state. The volcano must have been preserved to this day their homes, shops, its streets, their bodies charred reconstructed from a plaster cast. The tons of ash and lava that were deposited on the city allowed in a natural way will be preserved exactly as she left the day of the eruption, when archaeologists began to unearth the ruins they found buildings that kept the original paintings, frescoes and mosaics of the houses and temples, so much information today is about the Roman lifestyle mid if DC is due to the eruption of a volcano that still, even sleeping Vesuvius seismic activity recorded.
The information we have about what happened on August 24, 1979 AD is due in large part to letters sent Pliny the Younger to Emperor Trajan where recounted what happened as his uncle Pliny the Elder had been there to deal with the affairs of the empire at that time under the hand of Titus. It is known that the volcano began recording activity days before the disaster by low-intensity earthquakes, but the people were quite used to this kind of seismic activity, so I was not given much importance, but what nobody knew was that for years a large reservoir of magma had accumulated beneath the volcano and this would be the trigger for the subsequent eruption of such virulence that of normal step would be an effect of the different phases for days focused into one, the morning and 24 hours a day.
The magma came into contact with water that leaked causing a rain of volcanic ash, so does the magma began to rise about 4 hours before the eruption, the volcano's surface broke little after noon, causing the explosion, pushing the pumice and gases at a height of 28 km vertically, we can say that the thermal energy released was equivalent to 100,000 times that of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb. Thus we get an idea of \u200b\u200bthe chilling the event and the subsequent results. The gases and stone column was 33 km, but when it reached the maximum height collapsed, scattering the gas through a 20 km radius and causing a rain of pumice. We know that what killed so many people was not the pumice as this but were counted in tons is not fatal in itself because it has low density, but if the gas due to its toxicity were losing knowledge about the lack of oxygen, however the roofs of some houses by the weight came down and support ships for the evacuation were dedicated by the stone that fell on them.
Further studies and layers of strata on Vesuvius is believed that consolidated all stages of the harmful and deadly volcanoes, covering completely cities Pompeii and Herculaneum, not many managed to escape the misery up to ships in port during the early hours of the day, the rest waiting for the worst had happened were protected in their homes, making the most of errors because as the day wore on the air was unbearable. Pliny Old man died trying to help the Pompeian fleet aid docking at the port, but it was impossible before the end of the day, thousands of men, women, children and animals were buried and suffocated.
Pompeii, inhabited by some 20,000 people and Herculaneum was reduced to ashes, today you can see the molds that archaeologists have made the petrified bodies of the deceased, as well as animals , we move from a very graphic way to the agony suffered by the population. Pompeii is now a ghost town of unparalleled beauty, the frescoes, the entrances to villages or the forum represent what was, a city of rich aristocrats who perished in the devastating effect of the volcano.
we extracted from fields of invaluable information, graffiti, election campaigns, manuscripts, and millions of everyday elements that facilitated the understanding of the time and it evokes an advanced society, cosmopolitan and wealthy. Whole multi-storey buildings virtually intact for studying the modus vivendi and a clear dream of what once was.
(mention the visit to Herculaneum, a small Pompeii)
Other Recommended Sites are
cloister of Santa Chiara (Maiolica Napolitana)
Golfo Di Sorrento 
Parco Virgil (see the bottom of the islands of Naples)
Paestum
Discover how you can be immersed in the underground napoli, endless galleries dug in the time of World War and bunker that served at that time. visit the archaeological museum and Capodimonte, the largest in Italy. So describe its many churches, it would be almost impossible to say that if they are great works of Italian artists such as Caravaggio.
Naples Cathedral
I do not want to forget to recommend the Amalfi Coast (Amalfi, Positano, Ravello ,....) a number of towns around the Gulf of Naples and Salerno, with some amazing slopes where they grow houses stacked together. It is advisable to travel by bike to go from town to town by a winding road .... that if the views are simply stunning.
Naples is because, in short, a city that does not visit or address or walking. Naples is a city that experienced and they shall live, it is true that it is hard for anyone coming from outside for the first time, sometimes to doubt and get away from it early, but once left behind, there is always the idea that there Naples nothing like the rest of the world and if you want to know the heart of one of the many ways of being of Italian, you should go there.
[Posted on July 21, 2006 at some point on the road between Naples and Rome]
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