Naples

Only a few more days till we leave... I'm so scatterbrained, but that's ok, what else is new?
I'm gonna post to the blog, some itinerary/walks of Naples suggested by Italian train tour company. Maybe, if we have time we'll take the walks (but not sign up forthe tours).

Tour 1: Riviera di Chiaia - il Borgo Marinaro e Castel del’Ovo - Mergellina - Posillipo Marechiaro. Enjoy a ride along the seaside from the Riviera di Chiaia up to Capo Posillipo, with its yellow tufa walls that tower the sea and offer a charming combination of views of the Gulf.

Tour 2: The walk starts at Piazza del Gesu’ and goes along Via Benedetto Croce, commonly known as Spaccanapoli. Here, stop and visit of the Santa Chiara Basilica, built in 1310. Walking straight to Piazza S. Domenico Maggiore, the visitors will reach the monastery of San Lorenzo Maggiore and the ruins on which a Paleochristian church was built in the 6th century A.D. Then, visit of the Sansevero Chapel, containing burial monuments and wonderful sculptures: the most remarkable one is the Veiled Christ, realised in the 18th century by G. Sammartino. The walk ends in Via San Gregorio Armeno, with its stalls and laboratories of Neapolitan crib crafts. Return to Piazza del Gesu’.

Tour 3: Visit of the ancient church of San Pietro ad Aram, built on the area where Saint Peter baptized the saints Candida and Aspreno, who were the first Roman Catholics in Naples. Then visit of the subterranean system of passageways and aqueducts. Lunch at pizza restaurant. In the afternoon, walk through the historical city streets.

Tour 4: San Gregorio Armeno, in the heart of Naples is the famous little street full of small shops of handmade cribs, opened all year around but crowded during Christmas period. You may find anything for the cribs, from the little shepherd made the little figures dressed in XVIII th century clothes, from the motor devices for rivers and fountains to wax fruits. Lunch. The area is still rich of beautiful spots worth to visit such as the church of San Lorenzo Maggiore (with its beautiful nuts with small cribs constructed in) and during Christmas tima many churches may have a living cribs. (During Christmas holiday season only.)