Places to see in ( Naples - Italy ) Teatro di San Carlo
Places to see in ( Naples - Italy ) Teatro di San Carlo
The Real Teatro di San Carlo, its original name under the Bourbon monarchy but known today as simply the Teatro di San Carlo, is an opera house in Naples, Italy. It is located adjacent to the central Piazza del Plebiscito, and connected to the Royal Palace.
It is the oldest continuously active venue for public opera in the world, opening in 1737, decades before both the Milan's La Scala and Venice's La Fenice theatres. The opera season runs from late January to May, with the ballet season taking place from April to early June. The house once had a seating capacity of 3,285, but has now been reduced to 1386 seats. Given its size, structure and antiquity, it was the model for the following theatres in Europe.
Commissioned by the Bourbon King Charles III of Naples (Carlo III in Italian), Charles wanted to endow Naples with a new and larger theatre to replace the old, dilapidated, and too-small Teatro San Bartolomeo of 1621, which had served the city well, especially after Scarlatti had moved there in 1682 and had begun to create an important opera centre which existed well into the 1700s.
Thus, the San Carlo was inaugurated on 4 November 1737, the king's name day, with the performance of the opera Domenico Sarro's Achille in Sciro, which was based on the 1736 libretto by Metastasio which had been set to music that year by Antonio Caldara. As was customary, the role of Achilles was played by a woman, Vittoria Tesi, called Moretta; the opera also featured soprano Anna Peruzzi, called the Parrucchierina and tenor Angelo Amorevoli. Sarro also conducted the orchestra in two ballets as intermezzi, created by Gaetano Grossatesta, with scenes designed by Pietro Righini. The first seasons highlighted the royal preference for dance numbers, and featured among the performers famous castrati.
In the late 18th century, Christoph Willibald Gluck was called to Naples by the impresario Tufarelli to direct his 1752 Clemenza di Tito at the theatre, and Johann Christian Bach in 1761-62 brought two operas, Catone in Utica and Alessandro nell'Indie.
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Places to see in ( Varazze - Italy )
Places to see in ( Varazze - Italy )
Varazze is a comune in the Province of Savona in the Italian region Liguria, located about 30 kilometres west of Genoa and about 11 kilometres northeast of Savona in the Riviera di Ponente. Nearby in the Ligurian Apennines is the Monte Beigua with its Natural Regional Park. Economy is mostly based on shipyards and tourism.
The burgh grew around the former Roman station named Ad Navalia. In the Middle Ages Varazze was disputed between Savona and Genoa, due to its notable ships production. In 1227 it became an independent commune but, after a short seigniory of the Malocello, it was sold to the Republic of Genoa in 1290.
In 1525 Hugo of Moncada, admiral of emperor Charles V, was defeated here in a naval battle and taken prisoner. Varazze followed the history of Genoa until it was captured by French troops in 1798. In 1815 it became part of the Kingdom of Sardinia and, from 1861, of the newly unified Kingdom of Italy.
Alot to see in Varazze such as :
Romanesque church of San Nazario e Celso (rebuilt in the 16th century). The façade is from 1870.
Church of San Domenico (1419). It includes Sienese school frescoes and a 16th-century polyptych. Notable is the cloister.
Church of Sant'Ambrogio. It has a Romanesque façade and a campanile in Gothic-Romanesque style with three orders of mullioned windows. In the interior are a polyptych by Giovanni Barbagelata and a panel by Luca Cambiaso with the Madonna and Sts. John the Baptist and Francis.
Church of Santa Maria in Latronorio, in the frazione Invrea. A pointed portal remains of the original 12th-century edifice. The interior is home to a large 13th-century fresco.
Eremo del Deserto (Hermitage of the Desert), in the woodland towards the Ligurian Apennine. It is in Baroque style, being built in the 18th century, with a large wall measuring 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) and including a wood and isolated cells of the monks.
Church of San Donato, from the 5th or 9th century, but mostly rebuilt in the 19th century.
Remains of the medieval walls
The so-called Passeggiata Europa (Europa Stroll) is a naturalistic path running on the former Genoa-Ventimiglia railway (closed in 1970), connecting Varazze to Cogoleto. It passes through rocky Maquis shrubland landscape including Aleppo Pine vegetation, and overlooks a series of small sea harbours housing rich wildlife.
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Napoli (Naples), Italy - 21st August, 2011
Views around the Italian City of Napoli, which is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples. Naples is known internationally for its rich history, art, culture, architecture, music, and gastronomy, and has played an important political and cultural role on the Italian peninsula and beyond throughout its 2,800-year existence. This video features footage taken on a short walk around the city centre, the following locations are identified: The Port of Naples, the cruise ship terminal, Piaza Municipio, Via Paolo Emilio Imbriani, Via Roma, Via Toledo, Galleria Umberto I, Via San Carlo, Piazza Trieste e Trento, Church of San Francesco di Paola, Royal Palace, Piazza del Plebistico, Via Ammiraglio Ferdinando Acton and Via Medina.
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Places to see in ( Naples - Italy ) Palazzo dello Spagnolo
Places to see in ( Naples - Italy ) Palazzo dello Spagnolo
The Palazzo dello Spagnolo is a Rococo or late-Baroque-style palace in Rione Sanità in central Naples. It is best known for its elaborate staircase. The Palace was erected during 1738, commissioned by the Marchese di Poppano, Nicola Moscati, and is attributed to the architect Ferdinando Sanfelice.
Through an indistinct façade one enters to an interior octagonal courtyard leads to a double ramp stairwell. The interior was richly stuccoed by Aniello Prezioso, using designs by Francesco Attanasio in 1742. The top floor was added at the end of the 18th century. In the following century, the family sold apartments in the lower floors to Tommaso Atienza, nicknamed lo Spagnolo (the Spaniard), whence the name of the palace.
The staircases with arches in shifting planes still grants an aura of complex scenography, despite its present cramped and dilapidated state: a grandiose entrance leading only to a decrepit palace. The nearby Palazzo San Felice is attributed to the same architect and has similar staircases.
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The Valley of the Dead – Naples Fontanelle Cemetery
It was probably the most disastrous century in Neapolitan history: three civil uprisings including Masanielos’s Revolt of 1647; three famines; three earthquakes; five eruptions of Vesuvius; and three epidemics including the great plague of 1656 which is purported to have claimed the lives of at least half of Naples citizens. Lack of burial space in the city and fear of contamination led the government to seek an isolated burial location outside of the city walls, north of the Naples San Gennaro gate. Nestled between the Capodimonte, Materdei, Scudillo, Miradois, and Stella hills, the area known as Rione Sanità was used from the 4th century BCE to the early Christian period for Pagan necropolises first and the burial places of early Christian martyrs later, in the Naples Catacombs of San Gennaro, San Gaudioso, and San Severo. Centuries of excavations for Tufo, the volcanic material used to build the city, left behind deep, rocky cavities, including the cave in Capodimonte hill that would become the Fontanelle Cemetery.
The cave, which according to current estimates is an area of approximately 30,000 square meters, had been used by the Spanish since the 1500s as a place to “offload” remains. According to custom, Neapolitans were buried in their churches, at least those who could afford it, but the churches soon became severely overcrowded. For a price, undertakers either pretended to bury the dead in their churches or would dig up old remains, put them in a sack and throw them into Fontanelle or other caves in the area, making space for new remains. The same fate befell the victims of the plague of 1656, whose bodies were thrown into the cave, usually without identification or a grave marker and often without last rites.
Places to see in ( Naples - Italy ) Villa Pignatelli
Places to see in ( Naples - Italy ) Villa Pignatelli
The Villa Pignatelli is a museum in Naples in southern Italy. The villa is located along the Riviera di Chiaia, the road bounding the north side of the Villa Comunale on the sea front between Mergellina and Piazza Vittoria.
It was built for Ferdinand Acton in 1826, as a neo-classical residence that would be the centerpiece of a park. The central atrium was moved to the front of the building and Doric columns still catch the eye of the viewer from the street 50 yards (46 m) away.
The property has changed hands since construction: in 1841, it was bought by Carl Mayer von Rothschild of the German family of financiers; in 1867, it passed to the Duke of Monteleone, Diego Aragona Pignatelli Cortes, whose widow then willed it to the Italian state in 1952. The villa maintains the gardens in front of the building, and houses a coach museum and a collection of French and English vehicles from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Genoa, Italy: Historic prison (ep.12) Marco Polo Family Ties
Visit the prison where Marco Polo was held captive and where his famous book came from. Stroll along this mighty port city once an arch enemy of Venice with the Polo sisters, visit San Lorenzo cathedral, the ancient monastery, Christopher Columbus connection.
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castel dell'ovo - Napoli
Sull'antico Isolotto di Megaride sorge imponente il Castel dell'Ovo. Una delle più fantasiose leggende napoletane farebbe risalire il suo nome all'uovo che Virgilio avrebbe nascosto all'interno di una gabbia nei sotterranei del castello. Il luogo ove era conservato l'uovo, fu chiuso da pesanti serrature e tenuto segreto poiché da quell'ovo pendevano tutti li facti e la fortuna dil Castel Marino
Da quel momento il destino del Castello, unitamente a quello dell'intera città di Napoli, è stato legato a quello dell'uovo.
the Mediterranean In Naples
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