Naples, a city misunderstood

A city which has been greatly misunderstood during the years and my dedication to Naples is because it was the city and still is, the one that strikes me the most. Naples like Venice is unique and incomparable.  Arriving in Naples is like eating ice cream for the very first time. Naples is a living city, it moves, it breathes, it feels and eats and drinks and sings….

Everything in Naples is on a grand scale, the piazzas, the monuments and the churches and there are more than 30 churches in this city and more than 200 shrines.  Here grandeur coexists with the cobbled alleyways, washing put out to dry dripping from the rusty balconies, women lowering buckets from the top floor windows and getting them filled with groceries or letters from the Postino who is called Salvatore, where the children play at being Maradona in Piazza del Plebiscito or where the goal posts are the doors of the magnificent Duomo where San Gennaro’s (Naples Patron Saint) remains are kept.  Naples is fascinating as it has no order and in this chaos there is an identity which has manifested itself into a philosophy, which is the Neapolitan’s way of life, getting on with it!

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