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Sometimes you were born in Rome... 📽️The 'GREAT BEAUTY' of Rome seen through the eyes of Paolo Sorrentino youtube.com/watch?v=6MRmPs…… ph. @FlorenceCrimon

When in NAPLES 11/x 'Walking by night through the town I reached the Molo. There in one view I saw the moon, her radiance on the edges of the clouds, the soft tremulous resplendence on the sea....and now appeared the stars of heaven....the fire of Vesuvius....' 🖋️Goethe, 1787

When in NAPLES 10/x 'When we reached the summit we found ourselves on a narrow ledge of burnt earth or cinders with the crater of the volcano open beneath us..the least motion or noise brought great quantities of ashes and stones rolling together down the sides' 🖋️Eustace🖌️Dahl

When in NAPLES 9/x 'There is one extraordinary feature in the real life of Naples...The LOTTERIES Every lottery office keeps a printed book, an UNIVERSAL LOTTERY DIVINER where every possible circumstance is provided for, and has a number against it...' 🖋️C. Dickens 🖌️Von Alt

When in NAPLES 7/x 'An hour passed without the MIRACLE taking place. Tumultuous shouts, murmurs...THE 'RELATIVES OF SAN GENNARO' entered the scene, twenty or thirty Hags who tore their hair with anger and threatened San Gennaro with their fists...' 🖋️A. Dumas 🖌️G. Gigante

When in NAPLES 7/x 'The TOLEDO road is everyone's road...The aristocracy passes by carriage, the bourgeoisie sells the cloth, the people have a siesta... For the noble it is a passage, for the merchant a bazaar, for the lazarer a domicile...' 🖋️A. Dumas 🖌️C. Brancaccio

When in NAPLES 6/x ' Going from the ROYAL PALACE to the DARSENA you notice a large marble statue, carved in Pozzuoli...it was Jupiter to which stucco ornaments and a large pedestal were added. He is called the GIANT' 🖋️J. Lalande 🖌️Saverio della Gatta

When in NAPLES 5/x 'Naples! thou Heart of men which ever pantest Naked, beneath the lidless eye of Heaven! Elysian City, which to calm enchantest The mutinous air and sea! they round thee, even As sleep round Love, are driven!' 🖋️Percy Bysshe Shelley 🖌️Van Pitloo

When in NAPLES 4/x 'In the SANTA LUCIA district the trade in seafood is mainly concentrated, arranged in good order in the small shops......they are sea urchins, starfish, corals, lobsters...The mystery of the sea depths is there revealed...' 🖋️Gregorovius 🖌️S. Candido

When in NAPLES 3/x 'I had now to see Naples in its summer heat and with all its wild tumult, but in what degree I had never imagined. The sun shone down with its burning heat into the narrow streets in at the balcony door.. not a breath of air stirred..' 🖋️Andersen 🖌️Vervloet

When in NAPLES 2/x 'Just as it is said, that people who have once see a ghost are never afterwards seen to smile, so in apposite sense it may be said of him that he never could become perfectly miserable so long as he remembered Naples' 🖋️Goethe 🖌️Gaspar Van Wittel

When in Rome.....is APRIL / in NAPLES 1/x Well, in springtime, why not take a trip to NAPLES for a few days, following the suggestions of the artists and writers of the GRAND TOUR, obviously NOT FORGETTING to bring the book of notes, pencils and watercolours... 🖌️Dunouy

This is my last post, it has been an interesting experience, all the best to everyone

Memoirs/Songs for Missing Accounts and to Send Greetings Everyone '..Everything goes away..Tomorrow the bar at the end of the street closes.. How much nostalgia I have If I think of when all of us we played cards a few bottles..' 🎼Califano youtu.be/8c7DA9uwNmA?t=… 📷Sammartino

@emanuelazuliani Anche a te Emanuela, grazie

@onlyinthisarea Buon Anno Nuovo Alessandro 💙

When in Rome....ZOLA ' MY TRIP TO ROME' 9/x ____________ '...You can see the TIBER flowing slowly and slowly....You feel the weight...the immense sadness...the desire for nothing of this ancient and glorious Tiber that seems to flow only over the death of a world...'

@MagdalenaSal1 Sei sempre molto gentile, auguri anche a te!

@onlyinthisarea bellissimo!!!✨ buone feste, Alessandro!!!🍀✨🎄

@ClaudioKlarke Grazie, anche a te

@onlyinthisarea ...buone feste, Alessandro. 👋☕️☕️🌤

When in Rome....ZOLA ' MY TRIP TO ROME' 8/x ____________ '...You can see walls of houses that go down to the water, a mass, a blockage of old and poor homes... a pouring sewer, small embankments... warehouses in front of the houses...'

When in Rome....ZOLA ' MY TRIP TO ROME' 7/x _____ 'I visited the CATACOMBS...The idea that death was nothing but a long sleep...Later, paganism would once again triumph over Christianity....pride would once again spread over death...with the tombs of the Popes turned Caesars..'

When in Rome....ZOLA ' MY TRIP TO ROME' 6/x ____________ 'I walked out this morning with my wife...We went straight to BASILICA OF ST. PAUL....A huge church....but not a bench, not a kneeler, not a corner to sit and to recollect himself....' G.P. Pannini, 1750