History

The origins of Naples back to the seventh century BC, when the Cumani founded - on the promontory of Monte Echia (Hill Pizzofalcone) - Parthenope, named after the mythical siren whose tomb was built, according to tradition, the first urban settlements.
Old core of the old city - Palepolis - was followed by the Neapolis, whose plant is fully recognized in the orthogonal road layout of the old center. Became one of the largest and most famous cities of Magna Graecia also for the beauty of the site, surrounded by green hills that protect the large port, and the mild climate.
That is why the Romans loved the neighborhood, dotted with villas that: yet the city still retained great cultural autonomy, deeply marked dall'impronta Greek original, until the Middle Ages.

Origins of Christianity has left monasteries and catacombs; oppostasi proudly to the Normans which succumbed in 1139 after a long siege, passed in the wake of the Angevin who transferred the capital of their kingdom from Palermo to Naples. Followed the Aragonese domination; then, in 1503, became the seat of the Spanish Viceroy. In 1734, with the advent of Charles of Bourbon, again became the capital of a kingdom that lasted until the Unification of Italy.The dense urban fabric of the historic center just tells this story, enriching the extraordinary fascination that only the continuity of population can give to places: traces of Greek walls are everywhere readable, and under the Angevin church of San Lorenzo is possible to visit the ancient Macellum; The Gothic churches, Saint John a Carbonara, the Santa Maria Donnaregina Saint Peter a Majella have been embellished over the centuries by frescoes, marbles, tables and paintings.
A glittering Baroque, "marked" by Caravaggio's stay before, and the frescoed by Domenichino and Lanfranco then, he served as a cloak ancient churches and palaces.
Charles of Bourbon, made it a European capital by starting the construction of roads and buildings grandiose such as the Strap of Capodimonte the Hotel of the Poor. The myth of the siren Partenope, dear to the poets of all time, which still attracts isitors from around the world. Its location in the center of the Gulf gives it an extraordinary value.
The historic center of Naples is written (since 1995) in Heritage, according to the International Convention on the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage.