I nostri viaggi d'Italia: Napoli

Spent a day in Napoli, we haven't been there for many years and wanted to see how it had developed. It was really sad to see the deterioration in such a beautiful place. Napoli could have been one of the most beautiful cities in the world with its beautiful location, beautiful architecture and boulevards, fantastic food and friendly people, but it has lost the opportunity.

At present it is chaotic, noisy, dirty and there is a lot of poverty. It is difficult to find a footpath that isn't full of holes or has paving stones missing. There is added traffic chaos because of building sites related to the construction of an underground railway. The pollution from the traffic was awful and I felt that I had to wash my hair as soon as we returned to Rome.

We remembered the the Galleria Umberto I and the area around it as having had a variety of great shops but now there are many shops closed in the Galleria and of those there, many were Antonio Barbaro clothing stores.

The photos below are only of a part of Napoli. We didn't take photos of the backstreets or the crowded markets - we wanted to keep our cameras and also were squashed in with heaps of people and had to avoid dog poo and rubbish. We were walking down one street and started to feel uncomfortable/unsafe and so decided to go back to another main street.
We had been thinking of staying in Napoli but were so glad that we didn't. There are many amazing things to see but it is just too hard.