Castel Nuovo - Maschio Angioino Castle Naples

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En Nápoles es en donde uno se replantea el viaje… ¿para qué viajar tanto y llegar a Buenos Aires en otro continente?... Uno se levanta en Nápoles y ya siente el quilombo de los colectivos y las ambulancias, los gritos de las señoras mayores que van al almacén y pelean con los chicos que suben a las …

Tuesday signalled it being time for our next city. This time we were flying to Naples in Italy for the start of our tour of Italy. For the last time we returned to the same cafe for breakfast and then headed with our luggage to the Schönefeld airport. The change over from the U-Bahn to the S-Bahn at Alexanderplatz was a little tricky as it wasn't …

It has been a day of delights for us in Naples, and more importantly a day of sampling the best pizza on the planet! Our journey started with the first of many train rides on the very fast European rail network. We travelled from Rome to Naples in a little over an hour on the Frecciarossa train, which moves at speeds of up to 360 km/hr. It is a …

... then checked into our hotel (Renaissance) and had the rest of the afternoon for sight-seeing. We walked down to the Castel Nuovo (New Castle), Teatro di San Carlo (Opera House), Fontana del Carciofo (Artichoke fountain), and Royal Palace across from ...

... much food, we strolled around the Centro Storico area, a very old part of the town, before eventually finding ourselves at the Castel Nuovo. This castle dated back to 15th century, and was surrounded by what looked like a moat (but was now being used ...

... it would be fun to revisit an old hunting ground. After suitable refreshments, we strolled across Piazza Plebiscito and around behind Castel Nuovo before picking up the quayside once more and back to the ship for a well deserved rest. The ship was due ...

... blood) was shut from 1PM. I got in at 1:30 or so, naturally. However, not everything was boarded up for the day. The Castel Nuovo was cool, and reminded me a lot of Monkstown (my hometown in Ireland for those that don't know) Castle, except not in ...

... park a smart car.  And nobody got parking tickets.  Our first bus tour, on the red bus, began at the Castel Nuovo and headed north to the Museo de Campodimonte passing the Fontana in via Medina, Convitto Nationale (National School in ...

... inside any stores as everything imaginable was available from sidewalk vendors. We wandered down towards the bay and found the Castel Nuovo - a fantastic gothic structure of truly grand proportions, surrounded by a moat and with holes from cannon balls ...

... and glasses on the table.       Out of the historic center, the places we visited in Naples included the Castel Nuovo (The New Castle), the Galleria Umberto - which is a huge open mall in a gorgeous old building covered with ...

... Galleria Umberto through the morning. Unfortunately the museum notes are all in Italian, which is fine considering we are in Italy, but slightly less than useless to the typical foreign visitor that would frequent a museum... Became annoying in the end ...

... today and we took a 1 hour walking tour of old Naples. Our city tour started at the pier of Santa Lucia with its impressive Castel Nuovo, then we walked up the hill past the Royal Palace, the San Carlo Opera House, and the Galleria Umberto I to the ...

... nbsp; We’ll tell you later about Ashdod, Israel.  Next to the harbour we passed the triumphal arch of the Castel Nuovo, a symbol of power and the scene of fierce battles between the French and Spanish.  The castle was originally built in ...