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#1 ·
Hello everybody! I would present you my city. I am italian and I live in Naples, this city is situated in the sud of Italy and it is the first city of sud and the third city of whole Italy after Rome (capital) and Milan.
Some information from wikipedia:

Naples (Italian: Napoli Neapolitan: Napule; Latin: Neapolis; Greek: Νεάπολις, meaning "new city") is the capital of Campania and the third-largest municipality in Italy, after Rome and Milan. As of 2012, around 960,000 people live within the city's administrative limits. The Naples urban area, covering 1,023 km2 (395 sq mi),[3] has a population of between 3 million[4] and 3.7 million,[3] and is the 8th-most populous urban area in the European Union. Between 4.1 and 4.9 million people live in the Naples metropolitan area, one of the largest metropolises on the Mediterranean Sea.

Naples was the most-bombed Italian city during World War II. Much of the city's 20th-century periphery was constructed under Benito Mussolini's fascist government, and during reconstruction efforts after World War II. In recent decades, Naples has constructed a large business district, the Centro Direzionale, and has developed an advanced transport infrastructure, including an Alta Velocità high-speed rail link to Rome and Salerno, and an expanded subway network, which is planned to eventually cover half of the region. The city has experienced significant economic growth in recent decades, and unemployment levels in the city and surrounding Campania have decreased since 1999. However, Naples is still characterized by political and economic corruption and a thriving black market, and unemployment levels remain high.

Naples' historic city centre is the largest in Europe, covering 1,700 hectares (4,200 acres), and is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. Over the course of its long history, Naples has been the capital of duchies, kingdoms, and one Empire, and has consistently been a major cultural centre with a global sphere of influence, particularly during the Renaissance and Enlightenment eras. In the immediate vicinity of Naples are numerous sites of great cultural and historical significance, including the Palace of Caserta and the Roman ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Culinarily, the city is synonymous with pizza, which originated in the city. Neapolitan music has furthermore been highly influential, credited with the invention of the romantic guitar and the mandolin, as well as notable contributions to opera and folk standards. Popular characters and historical figures who have come to symbolise the city include Januarius, the patron saint of Naples, the comic figure Pulcinella, and the Sirens from the Greek epic poem the Odyssey.

More info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naples

I start my tour from Mount Vesuvius and some air pics of the city:




















































to be continued...
 
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#4 ·
Hello ilovenapoli85,


Thanks for sharing the Italian|Naples images in the Sri Lankan forum.
But if you just google Sri Lanka, you will see a major difference between Italy and Sri Lanka.
Its not in the buildings or roads or cities, but the Nature. Some call it a tropical Paradise... I call it Home... You must pay a visit to Sri Lanka some time and experience the difference yourself.
 
#5 ·
Hello earathal,
Yes I think that your country is very beautiful and is the perfect place for represent the sentence "Natural Paradise". I hope that some time I'll go in your country and I hope that you come in Italy. Italy is a great country where each city (also the smaller) has historic buildings. Naples has the historic center recognized from UNESCO. I will show you in the thread the beautiful of this city :)
 
#8 ·
San Domenico Maggiore square

Another important square of the city is San Domenico square. It is in the heart of historic centre near the most and famous square Piazza del Gesù. (This square I'll show later).

A bit story of this square:

One of the most interesting squares in the city of Naples is Piazza San Domenico Maggiore. The square is on "Spaccanapoli" (named via Benedetto Croce at this particular section of its considerable length) the street that "splits" the historic center of Naples and that was one of the three main east-west streets of the original Greek city of Neapolis.

In the center of the square is an obelisk topped by a statue of San Domenico di Guzman, founder of the Dominican Order, erected after the plague of 1656. The original designer of the spire was the great Neapolitan architect, Cosimo Fanzago, among whose other works is the San Martino monastery on the hill overlooking the city. Actual construction (by Francesco Antonio Picchiati) on the spire was started immediately after the plague epidemic of 1656 but was suspended in 1680 when the spire had reached about half the height one sees today. It was finished in 1737 under Charles III, the first Bourbon monarch of Naples. The architect who finished the work was Domenico Antonio Vaccaro. The column is one of the three so-called "plague columns" of Naples—also called votive spires. They were all put up after the plague of 1656 as votive offerings. The other two are the one at Piazza Gesu Nuovo and the Guglia di San Gennaro.
The most prominent building on the square is, of course, the Church of San Domenico Maggiore. The church one sees today incorporates a smaller, original church built on this site in the tenth century, San Michele Arcangelo a Morfisa, a Byzantine church that housed the Basilian monastic order. The original entrance is still visible to the left in the square at the top of an outside stairway (seen in the next photo, below). After the Schism between Rome and Constantinople, that church became a Benedictine monastery in 1116 and then passed to the Dominican order in 1221. Charles II of Anjou began the extensive rebuilding that produced the Church of San Domenico Maggiore. The work was done between 1283 and 1324, but the church has undergone extensive modifications over the centuries, including one in 1670 that recast the structure in the style of the Baroque. In the 19th century, however, the church was restored to its original Gothic design.

More information here: http://ac-support.europe.umuc.edu/~jmatthew/naples/sandomag.html

I start with some photos that shows the whole square:



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Piazza San Domenico Maggiore di ernestoesposito , su Flickr


Piazza San Domenico Maggiore, Napoli di dtrimarchi, su Flickr


WHERE DID EVERYBODY GO ? * DSCF1864 di JAMES MARSHALL D, su Flickr


Piazza San Domenico Maggiore, Napoli di twiga_swala, su Flickr


Piazza San Domenico Maggiore di forzadelpassato, su Flickr


San Domenico Maggiore di falco di luna, su Flickr


Piazza San Domenico Maggiore di tiflosourtis, su Flickr


san domenico maggiore di Shamballah, su Flickr


Obelisco piazza San Domenico Maggiore di 52picchio, su Flickr


_LND1765 di DoctorG@Giovanni Facchini, su Flickr


Napoli Piazza San Domenico Maggiore di davide.bevilacqua, su Flickr


Napoli Piazza San Domenico Maggiore di davide.bevilacqua, su Flickr



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Inside Church of San Domenico Maggiore:




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Angolo barocco di San Domenico Maggiore di cle62, su Flickr


san domenico maggiore di depinniped, su Flickr


San Domenico Maggiore di Viditu, su Flickr


Napoli (NA), 2012, Complesso conventuale di San Domenico Maggiore: reliquiari. di Fiore S. Barbato, su Flickr


San Domenico Maggiore: riflessi di falco di luna, su Flickr


San Domenico Maggiore: vetrate di falco di luna, su Flickr


San Domenico Maggiore di J.Salmoral, su Flickr


San Domenico Maggiore di mberry, su Flickr


San Domenico Maggiore: organo di falco di luna, su Flickr


Basilica di San Domenico Maggiore, Napoli di twiga_swala, su Flickr

One of most important monuments of Naples is situated in the chapel of Sansevero, the statue of "Cristo velato" (Veiled Christ). This chapel is near the San Domenico Maggiore square.

The famous chapel of Sansevero is off the square in back of the Palazzo, itself, and is more properly named the Chapel of Santa Maria della Pietà, or Pietatella. It dates back to 1590 when the Sansevero family had a private chapel built in what were then the gardens of the nearby family residence, the Palazzo Sansevero. Definitive form was given to the chapel by Raimondo di Sangro, famous Prince of Sansevero, whose patronage added the frescoes and sculpture, which would turn the chapel into a harmonious and integral manifestation of religious faith of the eighteenth century. Unique and world famous, of course, is the statue of the Veiled Christ, sculpted by Giuseppe Sanmartino in 1753.

more info: http://ac-support.europe.umuc.edu/~jmatthew/naples/sandomag.html

The origins of the Sansevero Chapel are closely connected to a legendary incident. Cesare d’Engenio Caracciolo tells in his Sacred Naples of 1623 that, in around 1590, an innocent man who was being led to prison in chains passed before the garden of the di Sangro palace in Piazza San Domenico Maggiore, and saw a part of the garden wall collapse and an image of the Madonna appear. He promised the Virgin Mary to offer her a silver lamp and a dedication if only his innocence might be recognised. Once released, the man was faithful to his vow. The sacred image thus became a place of pilgrimage and prayer, and many other graces were received there.

More info: http://www.museosansevero.it/inglese/cappellasansevero/leorigini.html

Placed at the centre of the nave of the Sansevero Chapel, the Veiled Christ is one of the most famous and impressive works of art in the world. It was the Prince’s wish that the statue be made by Antonio Corradini, who had already done Modesty for him. However, Corradini died in 1752 and only managed to make a terracotta scale model of the Christ, which is now preserved in the Museo di San Martino.

So Raimondo di Sangro appointed a young Neapolitan artist, Giuseppe Sanmartino, to make “a life-sized marble statue, representing Our Lord Jesus Christ dead, and covered in a transparent shroud carved from the same block as the statue”.

Sanmartino paid little heed to the previous scale model made by the Venetian sculptor. Both in Modesty, and in the Veiled Christ, the original stylistic message is in the veil, but Sanmartino’s late baroque feeling and sentiment permeate the shroud with a movement and a meaning far removed from Corradini’s rules. The modern sensitivity of the artist sculpts and divests the lifeless body of its flesh, which the soft shroud mercifully covers, on which the tormented, writhing rhythms of the folds of the veil engrave deep suffering, almost as if the compassionate covering made the poor limbs still more naked and exposed, and the lines of the tortured body even more inexorable and precise.

The swollen vein still pulsating on the forehead, the wounds of the nails on the feet and on the thin hands, and the sunken side finally relaxed in the freedom of death are a sign of an intense search which has no time for preciosity or scholastic canons, even when the sculptor meticulously “embroiders” the edges of the shroud or focuses on the instruments of the Passion placed at the feet of Christ. Sanmartino’s art here becomes a dramatic evocation, that turns the suffering of Christ into the symbol of the destiny and redemption of all humanity.
more info:

http://www.museosansevero.it/inglese/cappellasansevero/cristovelato.html

Sanmartino__Giuseppe_1720-1793_Cristo_velato_1753_Cappella_Sansevero_Napoli di casalewebNET, su Flickr


Cristo Velato (Veiled Christ) di Antes 081, su Flickr


Cristo Velato (Veiled Christ) di Antes 081, su Flickr


cristo velato di mass6961, su Flickr


Cristo velato di Camper Club Italia, su Flickr


Cristo velato di Don_Giovanni, su Flickr


“Il Cristo Rivelato” di Felice Tagliaferri di AITAN°, su Flickr


Cristo velato di Camper Club Italia, su Flickr


A curiosity! In the San Domenico Maggiore square there is one of most important pastry shop of the city! His name is: "Pasticceria Scaturchio". Here you can found the traditional sweets of Naples:


scaturchio di winyang, su Flickr


scaturchio di winyang, su Flickr


scaturchio di winyang, su Flickr

I will let you know the traditional dishes of culinary art of Naples. The kitchen is of one of most important elements of the culture of the my people.
For example here is born the original "Pizza Margherita". But about this topic we return later! We have time!


:hi:
 
#9 ·
Close to San Domenico Maggiore square there another famous square of Naples: Gesù Nuovo square. Here there are two most important churches of Naples: Church of Gesù Nuovo and Church of Santa Chiara. In the middle of the square there is The Spire or Guglia of the Immaculate Virgin.

Gesù Nuovo (Italian New Jesus) is the name of a church and a square in Naples, Italy. They are located just outside the
western boundary of the historic center of the city. The existence of the square is a consequence of the expansion of the
city to the west beginning in the early 16th century under the rule of Spanish viceroy Pedro Alvarez de Toledo.

The Church of Gesù Nuovo was originally a palace built in 1470 for Roberto Sanseverino, Prince of Salerno. The Jesuits had
already built a church with this name in Naples, now called Gesú Vecchio. Political intrigues by the Sanseverino family caused
the property to be confiscated, and eventually sold in the 1580s to the Jesuits for 45,000 ducats to construct a
church (1584–1601) under architect Giuseppe Valeriano. The construction was also helped by local support including that of Roberta Carafa,
Countess of Maddaloni. The adjacent gardens of Isabella Feltria, Principessa di Bisignano were also included in the
construction. Construction of the church began in 1584. The new church retained the unusual facade, originally built for the
palace, faced with rustic ashlar diamond projections.
When the Jesuits were expelled from Naples in 1767, the church passed to the Franciscan order. The Jesuits returned in 1821,
only to be expelled again in 1848.

More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesù_Nuovo

This is the square where the two churches are opposite on the left there is the Church of Santa Chiara and on the right the wall with pyramid is the Church of Gesù Nuovo:


Napoli - Monastero di Santa Chiara e Chiesa del Gesù Nuovo di Goldenpixel, su Flickr


Napoli Piazza del Gesù di Angelo Casteltrione (Aka alterdimaggio1957), su Flickr


Piazza del Gesù di Phlegrean, su Flickr


Lights on the middle of the City di SalCon75, su Flickr

This is the Church of Gesù Nuovo:


Chiesa del Gesù Nuovo di mweav31, su Flickr


Chiesa del Gesù Nuovo - Napoli di Paolo Landriscina, su Flickr


piccioni sulla chiesa del Gesù Nuovo di giantrek, su Flickr


_DSC0139 di Cristiano Esposito, su Flickr


Napoli - Trinità Maggiore in Piazza del Gesù di Diego Menna, su Flickr


Facade detail di mweav31, su Flickr


Napoli Piazza del Gesù di pasquale56, su Flickr

The inside of the Church of Gesù Nuovo:


Napoli (NA), 2010, Chiesa del Gesù Nuovo. di Fiore S. Barbato, su Flickr


Napoli (NA), 2010, Chiesa del Gesù Nuovo. di Fiore S. Barbato, su Flickr


Chiesa del Gesù Nuovo di mweav31, su Flickr


Napoli (NA), 2010, Chiesa del Gesù Nuovo. di Fiore S. Barbato, su Flickr


Capella della Visitazione - Chiesa del Gesù Nuovo, Napoli di twiga_swala, su Flickr


Chiesa del Gesù Nuovo, Napoli di twiga_swala, su Flickr


Gesu Nuovo Church - img064 di Nicola since 1972, su Flickr


Chiesa del Gesù Nuovo di jon|k, su Flickr


Chiesa del Gesù Nuovo di jon|k, su Flickr


Chiesa del Gesù Nuovo di jon|k, su Flickr


Chiesa del Gesù Nuovo di jon|k, su Flickr


Chiesa del Gesù Nuovo, Napoli di twiga_swala, su Flickr


gesù nuovo volta di manulaprincesa, su Flickr


Naples - Chiesa del Gesù Nuovo di chris_suite, su Flickr


Naples - Chiesa del Gesù Nuovo di chris_suite, su Flickr


Naples - Chiesa del Gesù Nuovo di chris_suite, su Flickr


Chiesa del Gesù Nuovo, Napoli di twiga_swala, su Flickr


Moscati Rooms di jovike, su Flickr


Volta della Chiesa del Gesù Nuovo di photofabryk, su Flickr


Napoli, Chiesa del Gesù nuovo di Zeteticus, su Flickr


Cristo Pantocratore di Angelo Casteltrione (Aka alterdimaggio1957), su Flickr


Napoli - Chiesa del Gesù Nuovo di Giovanni Lo Curto, su Flickr

The Spire or Guglia of the Immaculate Virgin:


Piazza del Gesù nuovo di alfiogreen, su Flickr


Naples - piazza del gesù nuovo 02 di samandel.com, su Flickr


Angels di *Milk-And-Silk*, su Flickr


Guglia dell'Immacolata di mweav31, su Flickr


Piazza del Gesù Nuovo di antoprata, su Flickr


Illuminated di ClydeHouse, su Flickr


Piazza del Gesù (Napoli) di Raffaele Testa Photographer, su Flickr


Napoli piazza del Gesù di davide.bevilacqua, su Flickr


obelisco piazza del gesù napoli /obelisk piazza del gesù naples di "ANDEPLUS TCK'M", su Flickr

The Church of Santa Chiara:

Santa Chiara is a religious complex in Naples, southern Italy, that includes the Church of Santa Chiara, a monastery, tombs and an archeological museum.
The double monastic complex was built in 1313-1340 by Queen Sancha of Majorca and her husband King Robert of Naples, who is also buried in the complex. The original church was in traditional Provençal-Gothic style, but was decorated in the 17th century in Baroque style by Domenico Antonio Vaccaro. After the edifice was almost entirely destroyed by a fire after the
Allied bombings during World War II, it was brought back to the alleged original state by a disputed restoration, which was completed in 1953.
The large rectangular building is 110.5 m long inside the walls, and 33 m wide. The walls of the nave are 47.5 m tall, and the nave itself is 82 m long. There are nine lateral chapels on each side of the nave, the roofs of the chapels are vaulted, and they support the gallery that runs the length of the nave. Above the gallery are the lancet windows of the clerestory.
An unusual feature of the building is that the lateral chapels are absorbed into the body of the church, giving Santa Chiara its distinctive rectangular appearance. Another unusual feature of the building is the fact that the church does not have an apse, after the lateral chapels there is a section of the church with the high altar in the centre, flanked by the rectangular
friar's choirs on either side. Behind the altar is the tomb of King Robert, behind that is a wall separating the main body of the church from the nuns' choir.
The wall between the nave of the church and the retrochoir is penetrated by three screened grilles through which the nuns could observe the mass, while being invisible to anybody in the nave. There are also four windows in the wall which mirror the four windows on the exterior of the church. There is a large stained glass lancet window above the altar. Above this is a triangular pattern are three rose windows. At the apex of the point of the roof, above the level of the wooden beams of the ceiling is a fourth, smaller, rose window. The nuns choir is different in plan from the main body of the church, with two
large piers supported by rib vaults dividing the space into three sections. Santa Chiara was the largest Clarissan church ever built and it was the first Clarissan church built where the nuns in their choir would have been able to view the performance of Mass.
The bell tower, separated from the main edifice, was begun in 1328 but was completed only in Renaissance times.

more info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Chiara_(Naples)


Piazza del Gesù: Chiesa di Santa Chiara di falco di luna, su Flickr


Santa Chiara Napoli di Fabrizio Pivari, su Flickr


Santa Chiara di matilde.m.s, su Flickr


Santa Chiara Claustrum, Napoli di mararama, su Flickr


Santa Chiara di thefuton, su Flickr


Chiesa di Santa Chiara, Napoli. di Chingon76, su Flickr


Campanile di Santa Chiara di kiki follettosa, su Flickr


Munasterio e' Santa Chiara di Salvatore Adelfi, su Flickr


Napoli: il campanile di Santa Chiara di Angelo M™, su Flickr


Napoli di Leonì, su Flickr


Rosone chiesa di Santa Chiara a Napoli di ugomaisto, su Flickr


Santa Chiara di Federilli, su Flickr

The inside of the Monastery of Santa Chiara:


NAPLES - NAPOLI - Italie di Michel27, su Flickr


NAPLES - NAPOLI - Italie di Michel27, su Flickr


Monastero di Santa Chiara di Maxime Bermond, su Flickr


Santa Chiara - Napoli di MrBlackSun, su Flickr


Napoli, Chiesa di Santa Chiara altare di Angelo Casteltrione (Aka alterdimaggio1957), su Flickr


Vetrata Monastero Santa Chiara di Stefano Memola, su Flickr


Napoli, Chiesa di Santa Chiara di Angelo Casteltrione (Aka alterdimaggio1957), su Flickr


Napoli chiesa di Santa Chiara, interno mistico di Angelo Casteltrione (Aka alterdimaggio1957), su Flickr


19 santa chiara napoli di c0803f111a783ac8cdb93675a7027dc5, su Flickr


Tomb of Philip the Eldest Son of Charles III of Bourbon, Church of Santa Chiara, Napoli di raffer, su Flickr


Medieval Grave with Fresco, Church of Santa Chiara, Napoli di raffer, su Flickr


_LND7865 di DoctorG@Giovanni Facchini, su Flickr


_LND7880 di DoctorG@Giovanni Facchini, su Flickr


Tomb of Robert of Anjou, Church of Santa Chiara, Napoli di raffer, su Flickr

Inside the church (or monastery) there is an important cloister:

Famous is the cloister of the Clarisses, transformed in 1742 by Domenico Antonio Vaccaro with the unique addition of majolica tiles in Rococò style.The brash color floral decoration makes this cloister, with octagonal columns in pergola-like structure, likely unique and would seem to clash with the introspective world of cloistered nuns. The cloister arcades are also decorated by frescoes, now much degraded.

more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Chiara_(Naples)


chiostro - Santa Chiara - Napoli di Fabrizio Pivari, su Flickr


CLOISTER of SANTA CHIARA * DSCF0905 di JAMES MARSHALL D, su Flickr


Santa Chiara Napoli di giuseppetabbia, su Flickr


Santa Chiara: Chiostro delle Clarisse di Roberto1956, su Flickr


Santa Chiara Cloister di pietroizzo, su Flickr


santa-chiara-suburbanstorytelling di suburbanstorytelling, su Flickr


Naples : Santa Chiara Chiostro delle Clarisse 4/12 di Pantchoa, su Flickr


Naples : Santa Chiara Cloister delle Clarisse 3/12 di Pantchoa, su Flickr


Le colonne a Santa Chiara di AlessandroDM, su Flickr


Naples : Frescoes Santa Chiara Cloister delle Clarisse 12/12 - Explore di Pantchoa, su Flickr


Naples : Frescoes / Santa Chiara Cloister delle Clarisse 8/12 di Pantchoa, su Flickr


Napoli - Chiostro di Santa Chiara di -blondi-, su Flickr


Santa Chiara (Napoli, Italia) di unmirall, su Flickr


Napoli di Er-P, su Flickr


Napoli di Leonì, su Flickr


Napoli di Leonì, su Flickr


Napoli di Leonì, su Flickr


Napoli di Leonì, su Flickr


Chiostro di Santa Chiara di kiki follettosa, su Flickr


Chiostro di Santa Chiara - 1 di Minollo, su Flickr


Santa Chiara di MIgraciònTOtal, su Flickr


Monastero di Santa Chiara di Icker_Malabares, su Flickr


Monastero di Santa Chiara di Icker_Malabares, su Flickr


Santa Chiara di J.Salmoral, su Flickr


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