Neapolis: the Greek and Roman City in Naples: audio walks

Neapolis offers a view of Naples beneath the names and uses that arrived later. These routes relate to the Greek and Roman city, asking what remains and how it became part of subsequent life. They connect places and transformations without assuming that the oldest layers are always the most visible ones in the street.

In “The Historic Centre, Layer by Layer”: You start with the most recent layer: Santa Chiara on the August afternoon in 1943 when it lost its roof, and what turned up underneath when it was rebuilt.

In “Santa Lucia and the Egg Castle”: Then out to the island: Parthenope the siren, the egg Virgil is supposed to have hidden in the castle (and when that legend really appeared), the last emperor of the West, who ended up here with a pension, and the 1799 surrender that was never honoured.

In “From the Vicaria to Forcella”: You reach Castel Capuano, the Norman castle that the viceroy Pedro de Toledo turned into the Vicaria: here the ruined debtor climbed a column and dropped his trousers, here the camorra charged prisoners for the Madonna's lamp oil, and from here Eleonora Pimentel walked out to run the Republic's newspaper.

Choose from 3 independent walks in Naples. Open the one that interests you to see its map, stops and approximate duration before deciding. You don't need to do them all or follow this selection's order; each walk has its own starting and finishing points.