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The Sea Front
This section of the sea
front is relatively recent. The road running along
under the trees is named Via Caracciolo, after the Neapolitan admiral of the late
18th century. It runs from Mergellina
(where this photo was taken from) along the Villa Comunale ( the public
park and once Royal Gardens of the Bourbons). The red building directly
above the trees is the Nunziatella
military academy. The road, the breakwater, this
entire section of the sea front is the result of the
massive building campaign undertaken as part of the urban renewal of Naples in the
late 19th and early 20th century. Before that, the sea
washed up to about where the tree-line in the photo is. |
