Scavi di Telesia
San Salvatore Telesino (BN)
Hidden gemHistory & archaeology
The story
On the plain where the Calore meets the Volturno, almost three kilometres of Roman walls and an amphitheatre dug into a hollow tell of Samnite Telesia, still largely buried.
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- Sacred art
Abbazia del Santo Salvatore + Telesia
San Salvatore Telesino (BN)
Set in the plain of the Sannio, the Benedictine abbey of Santo Salvatore gathers the finds of ancient Telesia, the Roman and Samnite city abandoned after earthquakes and raids, and never risen again.
- Nature & hiking
Parco del Grassano
San Salvatore Telesino (BN)
Springs surfacing at the foot of Monte Pugliano fill a river of clear, cold waters, green as glass, where the canoe glides through dense vegetation.
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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.
- History & archaeology
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.
- History & archaeology
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.