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Encounter with the guide at Piazza Garibaldi, near the central station and only a few minutes from the autostrada ( express way).Then in the bus we will go along Corso Umberto I, one of the main streets of the city.
We will pass through Piazza N. Amore, named for the first mayor of Naples and also known as Piazza dei Quattro Palazzi because the four buildings that surround it have identical facades and are from the Austrian period (1706-1734).We continue along the front of the university, founded in 1224 by Federico II of Svevia. We arrive to Piazza Municipio which is overlooked by Maschio Angioino, the castle which symbolizes Naples, constructed by the Angioini in the XIII century and enlarged by the Aragonesi in the XV century they also constructed the beautiful Arco di Trionfo di Alfonso d’Aragona on the main facade, the Arch is a masterpiece of renaissance art by toscane workmen.We continue along Palazzo S. Giacomo, seat of the city hall.
We then reach the monumental centre where we can admire the facade of the Teatro S. Carlo inaugurated in 1737 the first opera theatre in Europe. In front of the theter is the galleria Umberto I built at end of the eighteen hundreds in the neoclassic style, the dome made of iron end glass is 57 m. high. A visit on foot of the Galleria to reach Piazza del Plebiscito on which we find Palazzo Reale (the Royal Palace) of the sixsteenhundreds, and opposite the monumental Basilica of S. Francesco di Paola: constructed on the order of Ferdinando I di Borbone, on his return in Naples in 1816 after the ten years French rule the Basilica is a copy of the Pantheon in Rome. Located on one site of the square is the most famous bar of the city: Gran Caffe Gambrinus, the only historical bar of Naples.
The visit proceeds by bus through a part of the famous quarter of S. Lucia, an antique fishing village that is now one of the most elegant part of the city were we can find the best hotels of Naples. We reach Piazza delle Vittoria and we continue along Via Caracciolo, the coast road that runs along the garden of the Villa Comunale, a public park built by Ferdinando di Borbone at the end of the 1770, we arrive to Posillipo, on the hillside from where we can admire the splendid view of the Gulf of Naples with Vesuvius in the background, the Sorrento peninsula and the island of Capri.
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