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 Metropolis since the antiquity, Naples is a city rich in history, of culture, of art of every time, situated in a humanized environment and natural, that of the Gulf dominated from the Vesuvius, full of archaeological treasures among the most famous of the world. Risen in the VII and You century as Greek colony, it was flourishing during the Roman empire as I bring and as center of patrician vacations.
The districts of the old city almost maintain intact the Greek-Roman road network; on this they have risen in epoches following medieval buildings and buildings barocchi. In the tall medioevo Naples was center of a dependent dukedom from Bisanzio; in 1139 it entered to belong to the Norman kingdom, then of that Swabian. In 1266, with the Angioinis it became capital; from 1441 with the Aragonese ones, whose palace was the Castel Nuovo, it began in Naples the period of the Renaissance.
In 1503 the kingdom in Naples fell in power of Spain. The city extended him with the typical dense network of narrow streets toward the hill. He/she returned capital in the 1734 bottom the Borbonis and he/she remained him/it, except the brief Napoleonic parenthesis (1806-1815), up to 1860 when the union of Italy happened.
Besides the centuries XIII and XIV, of notable artistic production they were the centuries of the Baroque period (XVII - XVIII) the most fertile of the Neapolitan art, that in architecture, painting and also in music it reached original and vivacious expressions.
 Monuments: Male Angioino built in the XIII century has been referred in 1400 by Catalan artists and Tuscans.
Castel of the Ovo: jail risalente to the XII sec. Catacombs of S. Gennaro, of the II century, they are decorated from paintings paleocristiane. Chartreuse of S. Martino risalente to the XIV century is the expression of the Baroque Neapolitan. Town villa: public garden of the XVIII century entertains the zoo and the acquano.
Museums: Museum of the Coral (the Greek's Tower). National Archaeological museum (p. Museum) material container coming from the excavations done in the city vesuvianes, works in marble and bronzes. Museum of the Carriages (lg. Princess) you/they can be found you Italian carriages, English and French of 1800 and 1900. Museum of Anthropology (v. Mezzocannone). Museum of Geology (lg. S. Marcellino). Astronomic observatory (v. Moiarello).
 Tourist information: Park Faunistico (Agnano): in the country of Agnano we can find a big woody amphitheater populated by many wild animals in liberty. Carnivorous plants (Mountain Faito): in the paesino of Mountain Faito there is the only sample of carnivorous plant that he/she lives in Italy: it calls Pinguicola. Since the ground where alive it is poor of nitrogenous substances, the plant it chases the bugs to absorb the nitrogen that requires her.
Gastronomy: Neapolitan Pant, pizzas, tortano cu'e cicule, zeppole, susamelli, babà, braciolone to the Neapolitan, drowned octopuses.
Wines: Wines of Ravello, white and red Irno, Gragnano, Vesuvius, Red of Procida.
Craftsmanship: workmanship of the madreperla, of the coral and of the cameo, shoes of rope, straw objects and rafia, jobs in wood. embroideries and laces.
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