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Naples (/ˈneɪpəlz/; Italian: Napoli [ˈnaːpoli], Neapolitan: Napule [ˈnɑːpulə]; Latin: Neapolis; Ancient Greek: Νεάπολις, meaning "new city") is the capital of the Italian region Campania and the third-largest municipality in Italy, after Rome and Milan. In 2015, around 975,260 people lived within the city's administrative limits. The Metropolitan City of Naples had a population of 3,115,320. Naples is the 9th-most populous urban area in the European Union with a population of between 3 million and 3.7 million. About 4 million people live in the Naples metropolitan area, one of the largest metropolises on the Mediterranean Sea.
Naples is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Bronze Age Greek settlements were established in the Naples area in the second millennium BC. A larger colony – initially known as Parthenope, Παρθενόπη – developed on the Island of Megaride around the ninth century BC, at the end of the Greek Dark Ages. The city was refounded as Neápolis in the sixth century BC and became a lynchpin of Magna Graecia, playing a key role in the merging of Greek culture into Roman society and eventually becoming a cultural centre of the Roman Republic. Naples remained influential after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, serving as the capital city of the Kingdom of Naples between 1282 and 1816. Thereafter, in union with Sicily, it became the capital of the Two Sicilies until the unification of Italy in 1861. During the Neapolitan War of 1815, Naples strongly promoted Italian unification.
Archaeological Museum may refer to:
The Depot Museum in Avon Park, Florida in Highlands County, Florida is a railroad museum housed in a historic 1926 railroad depot. It is operated by the Historical Society of Avon Park. A dining car is exhibited. The depot was along the Seaboard Airline Railroad.
Coordinates: 27°35′48″N 81°30′20″W / 27.59665°N 81.50566°W / 27.59665; -81.50566
National Archaeological Museum may refer to:
A museum (/mjuˈziːəm/; myoo-zee-um) is an institution that cares for (conserves) a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities throughout the world and more local ones exist in smaller cities, towns and even the countryside. Museums have varying aims, ranging from serving researchers and specialists to serving the general public. The goal of serving researchers is increasingly shifting to serving the general public.
Some of the most attended museums include the Louvre in Paris, the National Museum of China in Beijing, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the British Museum in London, the National Gallery in London and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. There are many types of museums, including art museums, natural history museums, science museums, war museums and children's museums.
The Naples National Archaeological Museum (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli) is a museum in Naples, southern Italy, at the northwest corner of the original Greek wall of the city of Neapolis. The museum contains a large collection of Roman artifacts from Pompeii, Stabiae and Herculaneum. The collection includes works of the highest quality produced in Greek, Roman and Renaissance times. It is the most important Italian archaeological museum. The museum hosts extensive collections of Greek and Roman antiquities. Their core is from the Farnese Collection, which includes a collection of engraved gems (including the Farnese Cup, a Ptolemaic bowl made of sardonyx agate and the most famous piece in the "Treasure of the Magnificent", and is founded upon gems collected by Cosimo de' M...
The ruins of Pompeii are incredible, but without a visit to the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, they feel incomplete. Most of the artifacts, mosaics, and frescoes from Pompeii are on display there, creating a more complete view of the famous lost city. The mosaics are rightfully famous, but the terrific condition of the frescoes blew me away.
For lovers of antiquity, the National Museum of Archaeology by itself makes Naples a worthwhile stop. The city's one essential museum visit offers the best possible peek into the art of Pompeii. For more information on the Rick Steves' Europe TV series — including episode descriptions, scripts, participating stations, travel information on destinations and more — visit http://www.ricksteves.com.
For anyone visiting Pompeii who wonders where all the frescoes and mosaics have gone, here's where a large number of them are stored.* *I am including the Museum's "Secret Room" that contains the erotic frescoes, mosaics and motifs that are as much a part of the history of Rome and Pompeii as the statues of the great men. MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY!
** Please expand the description box for itinerary & music details** www.instagram.com/timandglo May 20, 2015 While most first time visitors to Italy opt to head north to Florence and Venice from Rome, we decided to head south to Naples. We made this decision purely based on the delicious fact that Naples is the original home of pizza! We pre-booked our train tickets on the ItaliaRail.com. Out of cost concerns, we went for the slow train, which took just under 2.5 hours to get from Roma Termini Station to Napoli Centrale. The only downside to booking tickets on the slow train is that you're not issued an e-ticket; instead ItaliaPass emails you a voucher that you must exchange for a ticket at Trenitalia's Ticket Office (or biglietteria) at the train station. If you find yourself in this...
Day 2 in Italy and I went for a wander...found an old christian church and visited the national archaeological museum in Naples! Enjoy and thankyou :) Want more videos like this? Want to follow me around the world for the first time? Great! Just hit subscribe! Or follow me on: Facebook-https://www.facebook.com/JackThatTrav... Instagram-https://www.instagram.com/thattravelg... Want to support me even more? Then check out my Patreon at: -https://www.patreon.com/user?u=3666818 MUSIC STUFF: Music ⓒ - Twin Musicom Music ⓒ - Kevin MacLeod https://www.youtube.com/user/AudioLibraryEN Any questions? Please leave them in the comments below :) And I'll see you in the next one! Peace!
METRO ART NAPLES UNDERGROUND MUSEUM IN MOVEMENT Le Stazioni dell’Arte nascono da un progetto promosso dall’amministrazione comunale per rendere i luoghi della mobilità più attraenti e offrire a tutti la possibilità di un incontro con l’arte contemporanea. Gli spazi interni ed esterni delle stazioni hanno accolto, con il coordinamento artistico di Achille Bonito Oliva, circa 200 opere di 100 tra i più prestigiosi autori contemporanei, costituendo uno degli esempi più interessanti di museo decentrato e distribuito sull’intera area urbana, un museo che non è spazio chiuso, luogo di concentrazione delle opere d’arte, ma percorso espositivo aperto, per una fruizione dinamica del manufatto artistico. La realizzazione delle stesse stazioni, affidata ad architetti di fama internazionale ha rappre...
The Naples Train Museum Live Steamer 7.5" gauge train in Naples, Florida.
Click SUBSCRIBE! LIKE! SHARE! web site: http://www.colliermuseums.com/home.php Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Collier-County-Museums/113094728751031 Twitter: https://twitter.com/colliermuseums Long hidden on the fringe of Florida's Gulf coast and overlooked by developers until well into the 1880s, Naples' catalyst for settlement finally arrived forty years later when two rival railroads rolled into town within ten days of each other. Set in Naples' restored Seaboard Air Line Railway passenger station, the Naples Depot Museum welcomes visitors back to the railroading boom days of the Roaring Twenties and explains how generations of Southwest Floridians used technology and transportation to conquer a vast and seemingly impenetrable frontier. Seminole dugout canoes, a mule wagon,...
The Naples National Archaeological Museum (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli) in Naples, southern Italy, is the most important Italian archaeological museum. It contains a large collection of Roman artifacts from Pompei, Stabiae and Herculaneum. The collection includes works of the highest quality produced in Greek, Roman and Renaissance times. Music: Music of the Ancient Greek procession of the Olympians, Ancient Greek Music: Sappho's Wedding Hymn (Epithalamion), Hymn to Zeus (composition in the ancient dorian mode)
In gritty Naples, we go shopping Neapolitan style, dodge scooters in Naples' crazy traffic, explore the city's vibrant neighborhoods, admire exquisite ancient mosaics at the National Museum of Archaeology, taste pizza in its birthplace, climb the lip of Mount Vesuvius, and wander the amazing ruins of the Roman town it destroyed: Pompeii. © 2006 Rick Steves' Europe
Travel video about destination Napoli. Napoli is the capital of Campania in southern Italy where hustle and bustle combines with serenity and joie de vivre. The Centro Storico Monumentale is located around the harbour and the Piazza Del Plebiscito embodies both grandeur and vastness, in contrast to the narrow confines of the old town. Close to the harbour is the mighty Castel Nuovo, its graceful entrance arch seemingly hemmed-in by two awkward-looking towers. Its construction began during the reign of Charles The First but Alfons Of Aragon subsequently had the castle completely rebuilt. From the centre of the town a small causeway leads to the tiny island of Borgo Santa Lucia. The island is dominated by a building which in ancient times was the residence of Lucullus, namely the Castel D...
Take a tour of Top 5 Travel Attractions of Naples, Italy - part of the World's Greatest Attractions series by GeoBeats. Hey, this is your travel host Naomi. I would like to show you the top five attractions of Naples, Italy. Number five, Piazza del Plebiscito. A gorgeous semicircular Piazza in the middle of Naples, it's church was modeled after Rome Pantheon. Number four, Castle Nuovo. Naples is the city of castles, this castle was built in the late thirteenth century. Inside you will find many historic art works. Number three, Capri Island. One of the world's most beautiful islands, is only twenty miles from Naples. Soak in the sun and enjoy life in Southern Italy. Number two, Castle dell'Ovo or Castle Leveg. A famous landmark and the city's oldest Castle, first colonies here, da...
I traveled to Naples to see Pompeii https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pG8e9zORRY and Capri, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3ieIAck8lM but Naples is beautiful as well. Just beware of pickpockets and you will be fine. music -power juice http://www.pacdv.com/sounds/
One of the best things to do in Naples is eat Napoli Pizza. Do that and you will have a blast. Of course, if you looking for a few other good things to do in Naples, Italy then you’ve come to the right place. My top 10 Things To Do In Naples, Italy video was filmed throughout 2 months of travel in Naples and includes all the best things to do in Naples to enjoy a fun day, rather than top 10 tourist attractions in Naples.. although eating Napoli Pizza would still make that list too. Enjoy this travel video adventure of Naples, Italy as we visit various fun neighborhoods like Mergellina and Chiaia, as well as a few great landmarks like the Castel dell’Ovo, Piazza del Plebiscito, and Galleria Umberto. Visit my blog AMae.TV for details on my exciting travel adventures including links for t...
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Richard Ayoade and Jack Dee discovering Naples on board of our vintage Vespa with our guide all around the city. After they try to make pizza, go to Ercolano, Capri and San Gregorio Armeno. Finally they play lotto. More info about our Vespa Tour on: www.napolinvespa.it
Travel video about destination Napoli in Naples. Porta Capuano is Europe’s largest ancient town and is located in Naples, a southern Italian city situated within a bay near to Mount Vesuvius. The Via Dei Tribunali is one of three main streets that originated in antiquity and gave structure to the town. Around fourteen hundred sacred Gothic buildings originated along this important lifeline of the city, the Duomo Di San Gennaro being one of the most famous. The Spaccanapoli is one of the city’s three Greek-Roman streets. A small side street, the Via Gregorio Armeno is known as "the alley of the Christmas cribs", a unique collection of small shops in which the famous crib makers of Naples have their workshops. Amid the tangled alleys is hidden the San Lorenzo Maggiore Church with an inner ...
Extract from our new 150 minute Neapolitan Grand Tour, find it on AMAZON UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00NUH71M0 and AMAZON.COM instant video: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01CRD3FZY Debra and cameraman husband David Rixon make a Grand Tour in the Campania region. Find travel details and much more at http://www.footloose.tv/FLE/ITALY3sorrentoholiday.htm. Features a city tour of Naples, visits to Ischia Vesuvius and Pompeii. Chapter 2 is Sorrento and fabulous walking on the peninsula. Chapter 3 is the Amalfi coast featuring a cookery lesson at Positano, the paper museum at Amalfi and the gardens of Villas Rufolo and Cimbrone at Positano Chapter 4 is a panoramic coastal trail of Capri and its town, featuring Villa Jovis, Anacapri and the Blue Grotto. Part of the Footloose in Europe serie...
https://www.expedia.com/Amalfi-Coast.d180060.Destination-Travel-Guides The Amalfi Coast stretches for 30 miles along the southern coast of the Sorrentine Peninsula in Southern Italy. There are some places that are so famous and so legendary that even before you set foot there, it feels familiar. The Amalfi Coast or “road of a thousand bends” is one such place. This route has attracted society’s rich and beautiful for thousands of years and inspired some of the world’s greatest artists and writers. The area’s largest city, Amalfi is a great place to begin this legendary journey. A wealthy and powerful town during medieval times, merchants here were amongst the few who had gold coins to spend instead of the barter system used throughout the rest of Italy. Visit the magnificent building...
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The Vegan Roadie Season 3: Ciao Italia! FULL CAMPAIGN HERE --> https://www.gofundme.com/veganroadieitaly The Vegan Roadie is back and taking it abroad to bring you six BRAND NEW episodes covering various regions in Italy. Thought you had to take Italy off your bucket list because you no longer consume animal products? Think again, join your host Dustin Harder on a plant based journey across one of the most visited countries in the world! Discover where to dine on your trip to Italy and uncover some hidden gems. Not only will you get an inside scoop on plant based eats, fashion and culture. Dustin will take you inside a families house in each region visited to get a one on one cooking lesson showcasing authentic italian meals that just so happen to be vegan, after Dustin will break the r...
Richard Ayoade and Jack Dee discovering Naples on board of our vintage Vespa with our guide all around the city. After they try to make pizza, go to Ercolano, Capri and San Gregorio Armeno. Finally they play lotto. More info about our Vespa Tour on: www.napolinvespa.it
The Naples National Archaeological Museum (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli) is a museum in Naples, southern Italy, at the northwest corner of the original Greek wall of the city of Neapolis. The museum contains a large collection of Roman artifacts from Pompeii, Stabiae and Herculaneum. The collection includes works of the highest quality produced in Greek, Roman and Renaissance times. It is the most important Italian archaeological museum. The museum hosts extensive collections of Greek and Roman antiquities. Their core is from the Farnese Collection, which includes a collection of engraved gems (including the Farnese Cup, a Ptolemaic bowl made of sardonyx agate and the most famous piece in the "Treasure of the Magnificent", and is founded upon gems collected by Cosimo de' M...
The ruins of Pompeii are incredible, but without a visit to the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, they feel incomplete. Most of the artifacts, mosaics, and frescoes from Pompeii are on display there, creating a more complete view of the famous lost city. The mosaics are rightfully famous, but the terrific condition of the frescoes blew me away.
For lovers of antiquity, the National Museum of Archaeology by itself makes Naples a worthwhile stop. The city's one essential museum visit offers the best possible peek into the art of Pompeii. For more information on the Rick Steves' Europe TV series — including episode descriptions, scripts, participating stations, travel information on destinations and more — visit http://www.ricksteves.com.
For anyone visiting Pompeii who wonders where all the frescoes and mosaics have gone, here's where a large number of them are stored.* *I am including the Museum's "Secret Room" that contains the erotic frescoes, mosaics and motifs that are as much a part of the history of Rome and Pompeii as the statues of the great men. MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY!
** Please expand the description box for itinerary & music details** www.instagram.com/timandglo May 20, 2015 While most first time visitors to Italy opt to head north to Florence and Venice from Rome, we decided to head south to Naples. We made this decision purely based on the delicious fact that Naples is the original home of pizza! We pre-booked our train tickets on the ItaliaRail.com. Out of cost concerns, we went for the slow train, which took just under 2.5 hours to get from Roma Termini Station to Napoli Centrale. The only downside to booking tickets on the slow train is that you're not issued an e-ticket; instead ItaliaPass emails you a voucher that you must exchange for a ticket at Trenitalia's Ticket Office (or biglietteria) at the train station. If you find yourself in this...
Day 2 in Italy and I went for a wander...found an old christian church and visited the national archaeological museum in Naples! Enjoy and thankyou :) Want more videos like this? Want to follow me around the world for the first time? Great! Just hit subscribe! Or follow me on: Facebook-https://www.facebook.com/JackThatTrav... Instagram-https://www.instagram.com/thattravelg... Want to support me even more? Then check out my Patreon at: -https://www.patreon.com/user?u=3666818 MUSIC STUFF: Music ⓒ - Twin Musicom Music ⓒ - Kevin MacLeod https://www.youtube.com/user/AudioLibraryEN Any questions? Please leave them in the comments below :) And I'll see you in the next one! Peace!
METRO ART NAPLES UNDERGROUND MUSEUM IN MOVEMENT Le Stazioni dell’Arte nascono da un progetto promosso dall’amministrazione comunale per rendere i luoghi della mobilità più attraenti e offrire a tutti la possibilità di un incontro con l’arte contemporanea. Gli spazi interni ed esterni delle stazioni hanno accolto, con il coordinamento artistico di Achille Bonito Oliva, circa 200 opere di 100 tra i più prestigiosi autori contemporanei, costituendo uno degli esempi più interessanti di museo decentrato e distribuito sull’intera area urbana, un museo che non è spazio chiuso, luogo di concentrazione delle opere d’arte, ma percorso espositivo aperto, per una fruizione dinamica del manufatto artistico. La realizzazione delle stesse stazioni, affidata ad architetti di fama internazionale ha rappre...
The Naples Train Museum Live Steamer 7.5" gauge train in Naples, Florida.
Click SUBSCRIBE! LIKE! SHARE! web site: http://www.colliermuseums.com/home.php Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Collier-County-Museums/113094728751031 Twitter: https://twitter.com/colliermuseums Long hidden on the fringe of Florida's Gulf coast and overlooked by developers until well into the 1880s, Naples' catalyst for settlement finally arrived forty years later when two rival railroads rolled into town within ten days of each other. Set in Naples' restored Seaboard Air Line Railway passenger station, the Naples Depot Museum welcomes visitors back to the railroading boom days of the Roaring Twenties and explains how generations of Southwest Floridians used technology and transportation to conquer a vast and seemingly impenetrable frontier. Seminole dugout canoes, a mule wagon,...
The Naples National Archaeological Museum (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli) in Naples, southern Italy, is the most important Italian archaeological museum. It contains a large collection of Roman artifacts from Pompei, Stabiae and Herculaneum. The collection includes works of the highest quality produced in Greek, Roman and Renaissance times. Music: Music of the Ancient Greek procession of the Olympians, Ancient Greek Music: Sappho's Wedding Hymn (Epithalamion), Hymn to Zeus (composition in the ancient dorian mode)
Jim and Emily take trip to Naples and Capri Italy.
Archaeology, as we understand it, didn't exist in 1758 when Johann Joachim Winckelmann made his way from the royal library in Dresden, Germany, to visit another private collection. He wanted to see the King of Naples's museum of statues, salvaged from crude digs at the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, 1700 years after their destruction in the eruption of Vesuvius in AD79. The king's guards refused him entry. But Winckelmann persevered, sneaking into the museum and the excavation sites, until he published an illicit catalogue of the finds that took the civilized world by storm, sparking a new interest in, and understanding of, the classical world. At last Winckelmann's life's work was recognized, but he had to fight to the end of his life for the ideal of scientifically accurate and respo...
Archaeology, as we understand it, didn't exist in 1758 when Johann Joachim Winckelmann made his way from the royal library in Dresden, Germany, to visit another private collection. He wanted to see the King of Naples's museum of statues, salvaged from crude digs at the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, 1700 years after their destruction in the eruption of Vesuvius in AD79. The king's guards refused him entry. But Winckelmann persevered, sneaking into the museum and the excavation sites, until he published an illicit catalogue of the finds that took the civilized world by storm, sparking a new interest in, and understanding of, the classical world. At last Winckelmann's life's work was recognized, but he had to fight to the end of his life for the ideal of scientifically accurate and respo...
Archaeology, as we understand it, didn't exist in 1758 when Johann Joachim Winckelmann made his way from the royal library in Dresden, Germany, to visit another private collection. He wanted to see the King of Naples's museum of statues, salvaged from crude digs at the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, 1700 years after their destruction in the eruption of Vesuvius in AD79. The king's guards refused him entry. But Winckelmann persevered, sneaking into the museum and the excavation sites, until he published an illicit catalogue of the finds that took the civilized world by storm, sparking a new interest in, and understanding of, the classical world. At last Winckelmann's life's work was recognized, but he had to fight to the end of his life for the ideal of scientifically accurate and respo...
History Documentary hosted by Harvey Friedman, published by History Channel in 2010 Archaeology, as we understand it, didn't exist in 1758 when Johann Joachim Winckelmann made his way from the royal library in Dresden, Germany, to visit another private collection. He wanted to see the King of Naples's museum of statues, salvaged from crude digs at the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, 1700 years after their destruction in the eruption of Vesuvius in AD79. The king's guards refused him entry. But Winckelmann persevered, sneaking into the museum and the excavation sites, until he published an illicit catalogue of the finds that took the civilized world by storm, sparking a new interest in, and understanding of, the classical world. At last Winckelmann's life's work was recognized, but he h...
Fondazione Pieta de Turchini and U-Sophia Are proud to present: From Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano In Naples, a museum of Intesa Sanpaolo La Risonanza Ensemble Music by Bach, Telemann and Couperin Fabio Bonizzoni, harpsichord Caterina Dell'Agnello, viola da gamba, Andrea Mion, oboe
Dawson W. Carr Recorded June 19, 2016 at the Portland Art Museum.
Archaeology, as we understand it, didn't exist in 1758 when Johann Joachim Winckelmann made his way from the royal library in Dresden, Germany, to visit another private collection. He wanted to see the King of Naples's museum of statues, salvaged from crude digs at the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, 1700 years after their destruction in the eruption of Vesuvius in AD79. The king's guards refused him entry. But Winckelmann persevered, sneaking into the museum and the excavation sites, until he published an illicit catalogue of the finds that took the civilized world by storm, sparking a new interest in, and understanding of, the classical world. At last Winckelmann's life's work was recognized, but he had to fight to the end of his life for the ideal of scientifically accurate and respo...
Secrets in the Dust Through its ability to make us dream and marvel at the achievements of the past, archaeology has evolved from an inconspicuous discipline based on ruins and fragments into one of the most attention-grabbing fields of scientific study today. This series presents not only some of the most groundbreaking archaeological discoveries, but also the turbulent history of archaeology itself, with its adventurers and grave robbers, its embittered rivals and passionate visionaries. Pompeii Rebirth of a City Archaeology, as we understand it, didn't exist in 1758 when Johann Joachim Winckelmann made his way from the royal library in Dresden, Germany, to visit another private collection. He wanted to see the King of Naples's museum of statues, salvaged from crude digs at the cities...
Pompeii Rebirth of a City Archaeology, as we understand it, didn't exist in 1758 when Johann Joachim Winckelmann made his way from the royal library in Dresden, Germany, to visit another private collection. He wanted to see the King of Naples's museum of statues, salvaged from crude digs at the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, 1700 years after their destruction in the eruption of Vesuvius in AD79. The king's guards refused him entry. But Winckelmann persevered, sneaking into the museum and the excavation sites, until he published an illicit catalogue of the finds that took the civilized world by storm, sparking a new interest in, and understanding of, the classical world. At last Winckelmann's life's work was recognized, but he had to fight to the end of his life for the ideal of scient...