Ponte di Annibale sul Titerno
Cerreto Sannita (BN)
Hidden gemHistory & archaeology
The story
Thirteen metres of round-arched stone over which, they say, Carthaginian elephants passed. An iron elephant on the provincial road is the only hint that history walked through here.
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VillagesCerreto Sannita
Cerreto Sannita (BN)
Razed by the earthquake of 1688 and rebuilt from a drawing board on a chessboard of straight streets, it lives on ceramics in whites and yellows that have been painted here for centuries.
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Cerreto Antica
Cerreto Sannita (BN)
On the hill lie the ruins of medieval Cerreto, broken in a single evening of 1688: walls and alleys brought back by excavation, a ghost town watching its heir down in the valley.
History & archaeologyMuseo Civico e della Ceramica Cerretese
Cerreto Sannita (BN)
The artistic ceramics that flourished after the 1688 earthquake, in the eighteenth-century halls of Palazzo Sant'Antonio: plates and maiolica of a tradition still alive in Cerreto.
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History & archaeologyStatua del Nilo ("Corpo di Napoli")
Largo Corpo di Napoli
A river god reclining for centuries in a quiet square, whom Neapolitans call the Corpo di Napoli: he leans his bearded head among putti and a sphinx.
History & archaeologyCappella Pontano
Decumani
A small Renaissance temple on the decumanus, which the humanist Pontano had raised for his lost wife, still lined inside with Latin inscriptions dictated by his grief.
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Sedile di Nilo
Decumani
On the corner of a small Spaccanapoli square survives the seat of the old Nilo quarter, where the nobles once gathered before the sedili of Naples vanished.
History & archaeologyPort'Alba
Napoli
A seventeenth-century arch cut into the walls leads to the booksellers' street, where stalls of second-hand volumes pile up among yellowed pages and the shade of the old city.
History & archaeologyPorta Capuana
zona Garibaldi
Between two cylindrical towers an arch of white marble opens like a Renaissance triumph, the old city gate facing the road to Capua.
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MANN — Museo Archeologico Nazionale
P.za Museo
One of the world's great archaeological museums: here the Toro Farnese, the mosaics of Pompeii and the Gabinetto Segreto tell the whole ancient Mediterranean in a single visit.