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Secret Naples Valerio Ceva Grimaldi

Secret Naples By Valerio Ceva Grimaldi

Secret Naples by Valerio Ceva Grimaldi


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Let Secret Naples guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Naples guide book and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of this amazing city. Ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike.

Secret Naples Summary

Secret Naples by Valerio Ceva Grimaldi

Let Secret Naples guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Naples guide book and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of this amazing city. Ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike. The places included in our guides are unusual and unfamiliar, allowing one to step off the beaten track. Now in it's third edition, Secret Naples features more than 250 secret and unusual locations. Inside Secret Naples : A calcified lizard in a church, vestiges of a former brothel, a hole that cures headaches, a bunker turned art gallery, a customised Vespa from the Second World War, remarkable secret private collections, extraordinary old libraries unknown to Neapolitans, a Greek watchtower in a theatre, a rare clock that measures the equation of time, the bars of a chapel door that resonate like a xylophone, a mysterious phallic symbol in San Gennaro catacombs, a little-known museum with a section dedicated to Punch, a unique anatomical model dating from the 18th century, a raft ride 20 metres below Piazza del Plebiscito ... Far from the crowds and the usual cliches, Naples holds many well-hidden treasures that are revealed only to local residents and travellers who know where to step off the beaten track. An indispensable guide for those who think they are familiar with Naples or who want to discover another side of the city.

About Valerio Ceva Grimaldi

Maria Franchini - guide and lecturer on the monuments of Campania for fifteen years, was born in Naples. A journalist and the author of several books, she is passionate about Neapolitan culture and is also a specialist in Roman civilisation. She works for the Italian Cultural Centre in Paris, where she runs courses in the Neapolitan language, gives lectures and organises seminars on her favourite subjects. http://www.sgdl-auteurs.org/maria-franchini/index.php/ Valerio Ceva Grimaldi Pisanelli di Pietracatella, 38, belongs to an old noble Neapolitan family. A journalist by profession, he worked on the staff of the governor of the Province of Naples, Professor Amato Lamberti, then for the Assessorato all'Ambiente del Comune di Napoli. He also spent two years with Rai TV's Gap programme. He was editor-in-chief of the newspaper Notizie Verdi and deputy editor of Terra, the first environmental daily with a wide distribution. He has published numerous articles and surveys on the City of Naples. If you would like to visit some of the places in the guide, accompanied by the author, email him at: [email protected]

Table of Contents

Kayak tours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 The cursed villa of Gaiola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Is Virgil behind the curse? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Ospizio Marino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Brother Ludovico da Casoria, an extraordinary character . . . . . . . . 21 Villa Doria d'Angri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Naval Museum of the Parthenope University of Naples . . . . . . . . 23 The devil of Mergellina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Jacopo Sannazaro (1457-1530): the poet of Arcadia . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Epitaph on Virgil's tomb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Poetry trees in Virgil's honour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Virgil, poet and magician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Symbolism of the Crypta Neapolitana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 When Our Lady lost her shoe: why is Santa Maria di Piedigrotta so called? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Cinderella was born in Naples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Private collection of Piaggio Vespas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Studio 137A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Every picture tells a story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Frescoes at the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Palazzo San Teodoro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Female centaurs that caught the attention of the Metropolitan Museum of Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Palazzo Leonetti staircase and elevator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Gay-Odin Museum of Chocolate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Museo del Tessile e dell'Abbigliamento ...lena Aldobrandini . . . . . . 43 Traditional Neapolitan chic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Palazzo Mannajuolo staircase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 The early days of Eduardo, a giant of European theatre . . . . . . . . 45 Palestra Fitness & Beauty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Carafa caves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 The old city and its ferruginous water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Salons of Palazzo Serra di Cassano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Why is the main entrance to Palazzo Serra di Cassano closed? . . . . 48 Sartoria C.T.N. 75 - Canzanella Costumi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Tours of the Galleria Borbonica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Remains of an underground tramline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Former Aula Magna of the Faculty of Economics and Commerce . . . 56 Museo Orientale Umberto Scerrato . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Museo di Etnopreistoria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Byzantine remains in Castel dell'Ovo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 From Virgil's egg to the Castle of the Egg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Archivio Fotografico Parisio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 The president's anti-aircraft shelter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Vestiges of the former Suprema brothel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Associazione Circolo Artistico Politecnico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Giosue Carducci's revenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Mascagni, a poor loser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Horns against the evil eye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Cuckold's horns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Corals in the Museo Ascione . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Lucchesi Palli wing, Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III . . . . 71 Aosta collection at the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III . . . 73 Teatro San Carlo clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Royal access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 The new Giardini room in the disused carpentry workshop . . . . . . 75 Naples, world capital of music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Circolo Nazionale dell'Unione . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Bas-relief of a woman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Castel Nuovo: a pope imprisoned, Campanella tortured, Giotto's frescoes, the escapades of Joan of Anjou ... . . . . . . . . . . . 82 The crocodile that devoured prisoners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Statue of Antonio Toscano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Societa Napoletana di Storia Patria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Plaque in Vico Pensiero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 The thinker of Vico Pensiero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Diana and the witches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Naples, a city steeped in spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 The janara: the legendary witch of nocturnal evildoing . . . . . . . . . . 89 Museo del Giocattolo di Napoli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Giardino dei Cinque Continenti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Sister Orsola Benincasa's cell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Antico Laboratorio Scientifico di Scienze Naturali, Fisica e Chimica . 95 Museo della Fondazione Pagliara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Museo dell'Opera Universitaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Reproduction of Lourdes grotto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 A kitchen garden declared national heritage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Chair in the chapel at Santa Lucia al Monte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 San Martino vineyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Largo Baracche gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Inscription on Palazzo Majorana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Castratos: thousands of children sacrificed in the name of bel canto 105 Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Obscure saga of the last Caravaggio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Bust of the goddess known as the Canzanella Costumi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Tours of the Galleria Borbonica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Remains of an underground tramline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Former Aula Magna of the Faculty of Economics and Commerce . . . 56 Museo Orientale Umberto Scerrato . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Museo di Etnopreistoria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Byzantine remains in Castel dell'Ovo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 From Virgil's egg to the Castle of the Egg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Archivio Fotografico Parisio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 The president's anti-aircraft shelter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Vestiges of the former Suprema brothel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Associazione Circolo Artistico Politecnico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Giosue Carducci's revenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Mascagni, a poor loser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Horns against the evil eye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Cuckold's horns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Corals in the Museo Ascione . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Lucchesi Palli wing, Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III . . . . 71 Aosta collection at the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III . . . 73 Teatro San Carlo clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Royal access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 The new Giardini room in the disused carpentry workshop . . . . . . 75 Naples, world capital of music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Circolo Nazionale dell'Unione . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Bas-relief of a woman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Castel Nuovo: a pope imprisoned, Campanella tortured, Giotto's frescoes, the escapades of Joan of Anjou ... . . . . . . . . . . . 82 The crocodile that devoured prisoners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Statue of Antonio Toscano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Societa Napoletana di Storia Patria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Plaque in Vico Pensiero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 The thinker of Vico Pensiero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Diana and the witches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Naples, a city steeped in spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 The janara: the legendary witch of nocturnal evildoing . . . . . . . . . . 89 Museo del Giocattolo di Napoli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Giardino dei Cinque Continenti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Sister Orsola Benincasa's cell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Antico Laboratorio Scientifico di Scienze Naturali, Fisica e Chimica . 95 Museo della Fondazione Pagliara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Museo dell'Opera Universitaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Reproduction of Lourdes grotto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 A kitchen garden declared national heritage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Chair in the chapel at Santa Lucia al Monte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 San Martino vineyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Largo Baracche gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Inscription on Palazzo Majorana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Castratos: thousands of children sacrificed in the name of bel canto 105 Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Obscure saga of the last Caravaggio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Bust of the goddess known as the Canzanella Costumi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Tours of the Galleria Borbonica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Remains of an underground tramline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Former Aula Magna of the Faculty of Economics and Commerce . . . 56 Museo Orientale Umberto Scerrato . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Museo di Etnopreistoria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Byzantine remains in Castel dell'Ovo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 From Virgil's egg to the Castle of the Egg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Archivio Fotografico Parisio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 The president's anti-aircraft shelter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Vestiges of the former Suprema brothel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Associazione Circolo Artistico Politecnico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Giosue Carducci's revenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Mascagni, a poor loser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Horns against the evil eye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Cuckold's horns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Corals in the Museo Ascione . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Lucchesi Palli wing, Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III . . . . 71 Aosta collection at the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III . . . 73 Teatro San Carlo clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Royal access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 The new Giardini room in the disused carpentry workshop . . . . . . 75 Naples, world capital of music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Circolo Nazionale dell'Unione . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Bas-relief of a woman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Castel Nuovo: a pope imprisoned, Campanella tortured, Giotto's frescoes, the escapades of Joan of Anjou ... . . . . . . . . . . . 82 The crocodile that devoured prisoners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Statue of Antonio Toscano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Societa Napoletana di Storia Patria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Plaque in Vico Pensiero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 The thinker of Vico Pensiero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Diana and the witches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Naples, a city steeped in spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 The janara: the legendary witch of nocturnal evildoing . . . . . . . . . . 89 Museo del Giocattolo di Napoli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Giardino dei Cinque Continenti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Sister Orsola Benincasa's cell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Antico Laboratorio Scientifico di Scienze Naturali, Fisica e Chimica . 95 Museo della Fondazione Pagliara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Museo dell'Opera Universitaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Reproduction of Lourdes grotto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 A kitchen garden declared national heritage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Chair in the chapel at Santa Lucia al Monte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 San Martino vineyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Largo Baracche gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Inscription on Palazzo Majorana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Castratos: thousands of children sacrificed in the name of bel canto 105 Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Obscure saga of the last Caravaggio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Bust of the goddess known as the Head of Naples . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Secrets of Naples town hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Emeroteca-Biblioteca Tucci . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Pastrengo barracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Underground altar of the church of Sant'Aspreno . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Why does Saint Aspren relieve headaches? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Saint Aspren: the original aspirin? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Great hall of the Chamber of Commerce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Palazzo Penne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Istituto Magistrale Eleonora Pimentel-Fonseca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Antonio Genovesi high school . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Antonio Genovesi (1712-1769): a philosopher who became the world's first economics professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Marks on the facade of the church of Gesu Nuovo . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Bourbon Hall of Fame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 The Virgin's veil, Guglia dell'Immacolata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 When the Virgin belongs to the city and not to the church . . . . . . . 127 Archbishop Sisto Riario Sforza's great hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 The archbishop who invented microcredit before its time . . . . . . . 129 Church of Santi Marcellino e Festo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Garments of the miraculous Virgin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Cloisters of the former monastery of Saints Marcellino and Festo . 135 Museo di Paleontologia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Museo di Antropologia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Museo di Zoologia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Bas-relief of a hairy man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Real Museo di Mineralogia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Museo di Fisica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Accademia Pontaniana library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 Fontana di Spinacorona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Naples and the myth of the Siren Parthenope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 The Giambattista Vico Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Land registry of the State Archives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Filangieri room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Souvenir of the terrible explosion of 1943 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Lo Zingaro, the blacksmith who became an artist for love? . . . . . . 152 Saint Benedict's plane tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Tasso room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Saint George and the Dragon fresco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Legends of Porta Nolana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Augustissima Compagnia della Disciplina della Santa Croce . . . . . 157 Greek tower at the Trianon theatre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Pay for your pizza eight days later . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 False windows of Corso Umberto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Basin of a Roman aqueduct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Former Sava wool mill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Saint Januarius' missing fingers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 The miraculous Carmelite crucifix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Bungled looting of the remains of Conrad of Hohenstaufen . . . . . . 163 Quartiere Intelligente . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 The holy land of the Archconfraternity of Pilgrims . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Legend of the desiccated pine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Italian clock of Spirito Santo conservatory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 The other two Italian clocks in the city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 What is the origin of Italian clocks? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Holy land of the Arciconfraternita dei Bianchi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 Church holy lands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Former oil tanks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Clock in Piazza Dante . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 What is the equation of time? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Cloister of the former convent of San Sebastiano . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Arciconfraternita dei Verdi nel Palazzo Ruffo di Bagnara . . . . . . . . 175 La Conigliera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Hotel Correra aqueduct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Pasquale Catalano, a specialist in nativity scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Where can you see some extraordinary figurines? . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Church of San Giuseppe delle Scalze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 Museo Hermann Nitsch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Installation seen through a peephole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Casts of Parthenon sculptures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 Gypsotheque of the Academy of Fine Arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Holy Steps of Santa Maria della Sapienza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 Origin and meaning of the Holy Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 Holy Steps in Naples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 Underground galleries of Pietrasanta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 Cloister of Sant'Andrea delle Dame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 Seventh Heaven Lane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 Private tour of Monastero delle Trentatre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 Why is the number 33 generally associated with nuns in the Neapolitan lottery? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Neapolitan lotto: a history of divination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 Smorfia: the real meaning of the numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 Incurabili pharmacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 Electricity as therapy in the 18th century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 Naples, the last bastion of Teriaca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Museo delle Arti Sanitarie degli Incurabili . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 When unhealthy air was believed to cause syphilis . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Museo di Anatomia Umana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Casa Zevola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Commemorative plaques at Palazzo Filangieri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 Gaetano Filangieri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 Remains of a Dioscuri temple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209 Congregation del Crocefisso della Sciabica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 Origin of the word sciabica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 Artworks by Nathalie de Saint-Phalle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 Courtyard of Palazzo Spinelli di Laurino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 The ghost of Bianca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Hidden symbolism of Cappella Sansevero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 Why are two medallions faceless? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 Sansevero's Veiled Christ: from legend to the reality of sudation and mystical internal fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 Triptych of Christ Unveiled or Hidden Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 Plaque of the church of San Domenico Maggiore . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 Tomb of the first bishop of New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 Biblioteca Maurizio Taddei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222 A hotly disputed amputation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222 The duke's study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 Maradona's hair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 The Holy Steps of San Gregorio Armeno convent . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226 Other curiosities of San Gregorio Armeno . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 Forgotten figurines of the Ferrigno workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 The figure with no gift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 Symbolism of objects and characters from the Neapolitan nativity scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 Emblems of Naples sedili . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 Banksy's Saint with a Pistol graffiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 Reliquary cabinet at the church of the Gerolamini . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 Palazzo Carafa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 The Neapolitan horse: an exceptional animal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238 Shield of the city of Naples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Is that Domenichino's tomb at the chapel entrance? . . . . . . . . . . 241 Bars of the Treasury chapel's monumental portal . . . . . . . . . . . . 242 Statue of the Virgin that terrified worshippers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243 Il Re di Poggioreale, a trafficker who brought the treasure of Saint Januarius back to Naples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243 Self-portraits on the Treasury chapel altar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244 The dome: each face had its price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 The Tesoro Vecchio chapel of San Gennaro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 Marble calendar of the 9th century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 The passo da terra of the Duomo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 How is a metre defined? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 Sala del Lazzaretto of the former della Pace hospital . . . . . . . . . . 251 May the Lord deliver me from sad neighbours and violinists . . . . 251 Archivo Storico, Banco di Napoli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 A Neapolitan banking institution older than Monte dei Paschi di Siena? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 A Roman villa in the basement of the Banco di Napoli archive . . . . 253 Biblioteca Alfredo De Marsico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 Lizard in the church of the Santissimi Apostoli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 Ionic column at Pelletteria Collaro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 Crucifix of San Carlo all'Arena church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 Why all'Arena? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 Fate Presto: reproduction in the metro of a Neapolitan work by Andy Warhol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 Piazza Cavour tunnels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 Bomb shelter in Babuk's garden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 Events organised by the Friends of Marcel Proust . . . . . . . . . . . 265 Palazzo de' Liguoro di Presicce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Studio of painter Massimo d'Orta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268 Little secrets of Palazzo dello Spagnolo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 Sirens of Palazzo Sanfelice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 Greek hypogea in Naples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272 Cristallini hypogea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 Touching farewell scenes in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale . . . 275 Church of Santa Maria Antesaecula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276 The fertility chair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 Other fertility chairs in Naples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 San Gaudioso catacombs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 Palazzo de' Liguoro-Santoro staircase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283 Michele Iodice's workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285 Wine tax marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285 Torre del Palasciano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287 Ferdinando Palasciano, army doctor of the Two Sicilies . . . . . . . . 287 Ospedale Leonardo Bianchi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288 Roberto De Simone, bard of Naples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289 Cloister of the Facolta di Veterinaria (Universita Federico II) . . . . . 291 Museo di Anatomia Veterinaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 Saint Anthony the Hermit's pig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293 Saint Anthony's monks and the Templars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294 A strange procession and a bungled theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294 Blessing of the animals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 Curiosities of San Gennaro catacombs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 The noble Cerula and a hitherto unknown Saint Paul . . . . . . . . . . 297 La Sanita bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298 Model of Battaglino chariot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 The captain's skull . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300 The forgotten history of the Fontanelle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301 The woman killed by gnocchi and other Fontanelle tales . . . . . . . . 301 The cult of souls in Purgatory: when the dead and the living help each other to reach Paradise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302 What is refrisco? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303 Sweating skulls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303 Neapolitan riding academy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304 Golden cube in the exhibition park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306 Tunnels below Fontana dell'Esedra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309 A Roman road below the exhibition park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309 Rai production centre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310 Roman baths on Via Terracina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312 Naval basin of the Hydrodynamic Laboratory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314 Guido Donatone private museum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316 Bas-relief of the Triumph of Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318 Sergio Ragni's private collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321 Gothic tunnels below San Martino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323 Della Vicaria tribunal column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325 Meridian of the Carthusians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327 How does a meridian work? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 Why was 4 October followed immediately by 15 October in the year 1582? Measurement of time and origin of the meridians . . . . . . . . . . . . 330 The highest meridians in the world . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331 Why were meridians installed in cathedrals? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331 Parco Viviani . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332 Centrale ABC (Acqua Bene Comune Napoli) dello Scudillo . . . . . . . 334 Casa Museo di Pulcinella . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338 The symbolism of Pulcinella, exorcist of Neapolitans' existential angst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338 Maradona museum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341 Cimitero delle 366 fosse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342 Keller Architettura studio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 Origin of the name Foria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 Calabrese enclosed garden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346 Underground passage at San Giovanni a Carbonara . . . . . . . . . . . 349 Parco di Re Ladislao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351 Archivio Storico del Comune di Napoli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351 Statue of San Gennaro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353 Hidden symbolism of the cult of San Gennaro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354 Church of San Carlo Borromeo alle Brecce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356 Symbolism of the fly: from Virgil's golden fly to the Madonna of the Flies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357 Archivio Nazionale e Storico Enel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359 Art workshops of the Teatro San Carlo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360 Museo Ferroviario Nazionale di Pietrarsa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362 Naples and the south before 1860: a wealthy and progressive kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364 Museo Privato delle Carrozze di Villa Bianchi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

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