Coffee
by Polly74
In Naples coffee is a ritual you just cannot miss out on. It was once made with the traditional Neapolitan coffee-maker made famous by Edoardo De Filippo and Totò. Today coffee is made with the Italian moka espresso coffee maker following a few technical tricks that all Neapolitans know perfectly. First of all, the moka should never be washed with washing-up liquid, but rinsed with warm water only. Remember that if you have just bought a moka espresso coffee-maker you should use it without coffee grains inside once or twice at first, filled just with water or ready-made coffee. The secret of a good cup of espresso coffee lies in not pressing down the coffee grains too hard in the filter and turning the flame down to a minimum as soon as the coffee starts to “gurgle”, leaving it for a few seconds before taking it off the hob and serving.
One of the most famous, traditional coffee shops in Naples where a perfect "tazzuttella" of coffee is served is the elegant Caffè Gambrinus in Piazza Trieste e Trento, on the corner of Via Chiaia, not far from Piazza Plebiscito.
I have this pre-occupation with transport
by unravelau
Naples had a dirty feel to me so I guessed that it was a pretty industrial type of city. So, you can imagine how I felt (gritty and grimy) having disappointed myself by not getting to the museum, that I was delighted to see this shot at Naples Station. Handy gadget?
Piazza del Plesbiscito and Via Toledo
by Robert_Hun
This area provides the most to see and do.
1. Piazza del Plesbiscito: a huge square in front of the royal palace (Palazzo Reale) with an excellent view on the gulf and the Vesuvius.
2. Via Toledo: the main walking street of the city with vibrant life and lots of shops.
You can find the port (Porto Beverello), the Castel Nuovo, the "narrow-street quarter" and the funiculars to the Vomero hill in this area.
San Lorenzo Maggiore
by toonsarah
This is another of the many churches in the historic centre of Naples, but we visited not to see the church itself but what lies beneath it - an original Roman market, about half of which has so far been excavated.
Entry here was a little confusing. You go in through a door which is signposted to the museum, and up some stairs to a desk where you pay for entry to both that and the excavations, but if like us you’re only interested in visiting the latter you then have to retrace your steps almost to the exit and turn right into the cloisters. Follow the occasional signs “Scavi” to find the steps down to the archaeological finds.
The first layer you come to is part of a medieval shop; beyond this you descend further to find yourself walking on a Roman street. Small signs indicate the nature of the various shops that you pass, e.g. a laundry.
This market place is the only large-scale Greek-Roman site excavated in the downtown area, and as such may be worth a visit, but if you’ve already been to Pompeii and Herculaneum you may find, as we did, that it’s rather less interesting. Still it’s worth a short detour and the €5 asked for entry. And if you can’t get to those more famous sites, or find them over-run with crowds, this is a good little spot in which to pause and imagine yourself back in Roman days.
Opening hours during the week are 9.00 – 13.00 and 15.30 – 17.30, and at the week-end 9.00 – 13.30. No photography is allowed, hence the scanned ticket, but I must confess I sneaked one (photo 2), though I was careful not to use flash which could damage the stones if too many people used it.
Chiesa dei Girolamini
by MM212
One of the largest churches in Napoli, Chiesa dei Girolamini was built between the 16th and 17th centuries as part of the Girolamini monastery complex whose entrance is across from the Duomo. The Gerolamini are the followers of San Filippo Neri, also known as the Oratorians. Their church was designed in 1590 by Giovanni Antonio Dosio, but the work was not completed until 1639, after his death, by Dionisio Nencioni di Bartolomeo who also worked on the nearby San Giuseppe dei Ruffi. Both architects were born in Tuscany and brought a touch of Tuscan style in the design of the church, which diverges slightly in its interior from typical Neapolitan Baroque. The cupola, however, was designed by yet another architect, Dionisio Lazzari. Unlike the interior, the façade is typically Neapolitan Baroque flanked by two bell towers. The church continued to be enriched with art in the following years and contains frescoes by Francesco Solimena.
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