Napule, Napoli, Naples

Tavola Strozzi (the oldest image of Napoli, 1472/1473)

1 – Antiquity

All in Naples, the buildings, the museums and even the spoken language carries traces of all the periods of its history, from its Greek birth, until today

The first colonists were some Greek sailors coming from Rhodos, on the small island of Megaride (the one where is now the castle of the egg) and in the hills close to Pizzofalcone, the commercial colony on the small island was called Parthenope.
Towards the 8th century before JC, the hamlet of Pizzofalcone was occupied by inhabitants of the...