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Our visit to the Naples zoo
Sincerely I thought, the Naples zoo is very old and comes from the time
of kings. But it's not so. It was open after the war, in 1949. Some
years ago there was something terrible there, and they spoke, is
necessary to close this shameful place. I don't want repeat everything
what was said about it and what we have seen there. Poor animals. Some
of them could find new houses, others died. Later somebody found money
and it was decided to began the reconstruction. They say, it will be a
beautiful natural park, "family park".
We wanted to see this new park and visited it last sunday.
A sunny day in Salerno
I like Salerno very much. In the years I live here this city become a pearl near the sea and continue it’s development. Not only it’s a beautiful little city, not only it is situated not far from a great quantity of interesting places, but I feel sure in the streets even if I walk through the old medieval town and it’s night.
Walking trough Neaples
Some times a year the state makes feasts for citizens that like history,excavations and museums.They call these events “open doors” . It meens you have not pay the ticket that day.
These feasts have 2 interesting sizes. First of all they are organized on the weekends. What is so interesting in this, ask you? Saturday and Sunday are holy days for italians. They do not work, go in church and stay home. It meens everything is close from the 12:00 of saturday till monday. Museums too. So if you want to visit museums in Italy you have to chose working days for it. In the “open doors” sunday you find only some of them realy open. But you can visit excavations normally closed for public. There are even special busses for it.
Second interesting side is, there are not many persons that know about this events.
Castel dell'Ovo entrance
I was 2 times fortunate this year: I knew about it some days befor and it was very beautiful sunny weekend. The weather was instable for 3-4 weeks, we could hardly seen some hours of sun in this period. And then 3 days of spring.
read this article read the second part
Castles of Campania
If you don’t know, Campania is a Region of Italy. Nord of Sud :))) Were you want to put your feet here, you find meters and meters of history under you. Prehistorical settlements, all sorts of travellers and occupants,medieval towns … and unbelievable quantity of castles and churches.
You are surprised when you see them every step praticaly. Castles you see in this post I photographed on my way from Camerelle (Nocera Superiore) to Caserta -about 50 km. And this is what you see from the motorway. There are many others in the inner land. One man in Castel San Giorgio said me, he had photos of 12 castles situating near his town. I could not find the precise number of how much castels are there in province of Salerno or Neaples, but there are 25 only in Matese (nothern part of province of Caserta).
continue to read this article.
This is the 1 part of posts I'll dedicate to these very interesting theme.The little second part you can find here
And next days you'll find here articles about castles of Neaples
( New Castle here on the photo) and Salerno.
Campi Flegrei
this article you could read some days ago in the physorg.com
Geologists are reporting the ground at the Campi Flegrei caldera, near Naples, Italy, is undergoing renewed uplift.
Researchers at Italy’s Geophysical National Institute and Volcanology Observatory report the volcanic area, which had its last eruption in 1538, started a new uplift episode in November 2004. That uplift began at a low rate but has slowly and steadily increased
According to previous studies, the 16th-century eruption occurred after decades of uplift coupled with brief periods of subsidence. Within the past 40 years, the caldera experienced a huge uplift phase until 1985. The new data indicate a subsequent period of subsidence has now ended.
… the uplift is associated with input of magma from a shallow chamber.
This is the article.And it will be true.
I remember about a year after I came to live here (1996-97, I think) there was a great story in this zone of Campania. They said, there were movements of ground there that arrived to 80 cm a year. Immagin your house that goes up and down... This is maybe an urban legend because I tell you what we listened here, 60 km far from the place, about it. I know the region government wanted the residents go to live in other places but nobody left their houses.
This zone is very interesting to visit. Not only you can enter in the alive crater of Solfatara and to see an underwater-city from a boat, it was one of the most popular recreational places in the Roman time. There are too many places to visit there. And the other interesting thing, when you turn back to Neaples you can see clearly Neaples is situated on different craters.
I tell you here only this info and the article today. Later I’ll describe this place and post some photos.
Carnival in Italy
There are 2 great carnival feasts in the world,brasilian and Venetian.Everybody knows about them and if you think to visit a carnival you think only about this two.
Not all of you know every town and village in Italy has it’s own carnival and some of them are very interesting too.
The most popular is the Orange Battle in Ivrea.The carts with assailants full of oranges enter in the town to conquist it and the defenders have to drive them back.
Orange Battle in Ivrea
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What do you know about Nocera?
(an article from “Diary“)
When I come to live here,this zone was in a terrible condition but in last years it become as a flower that comes out in spring.The other flower in this bouquet is Salerno -beautiful,very quiet city,where you can walk through the streets in the night too.I love Salerno.It’s mayor did great job and now it’s a jewel.Salerno was founded by Roman veterans.In it’s center the Archeological Group preserves Roman treasure in a little church of Longobards…Every step you do, there are many layers of history under your feet there.
You are right.I tell you about Nocera and post photos
of Salerno.Unfortunately the weather is not good and I can post only
something old now.So here you see the only way from Nocera to
Salerno.Why “the only”?There are mountins on the right (you see them)
and on the left too.So all the ways passed millenniums ago and pass
today only here,in the middle.
Where finish the earth (on the photo) begins the Sea.
And from sea came in the vale of Nocera interesting people named Pelasgi, that settled near one of the rivers.Today you see sewers on it’s place (seems, somebody begin to understand it too),but 3 millenniums ago it was a big and beautiful river.In memory of their motherland pelasgi called it Sarno and themself Sarrasti.
Why leave this people their home?Somebody says it was the way to free their motherlands from excessive population.Greeks gave a vessel to a group of young man born in the same year and sent them to explore new places for colonies,Sannits sent those groups behind a sacred animal…Others think those goups had to look for metals for motherland.Others more tell about pirates and criminals catched from their earth…Maybe all these opinions are true.And we have the result:about 1 millennium befor Christ the vale of Nocera was populated by Pelasgi.
Have you ever thought about the sense of words? I know not many use to do it.
It’s sooooo incredibly interesting! Where come this or that word from?
Words very often conserve memories from our ancestral roots.Nobody
remembers, only some word can reveal the secret…if there is one,who can
understand what that word hides.Science, studies it, is called
etymology.But when we speak about more then 3 millenniums ago even
etymology hardly can help us too much.So we have to use immagination
too.
Where came these persons from?Nobody knows it,clear.We can immagin
Pelasgi liked travel very much.They rounded the world and rested their
steps,memory of their motherland, in all places they had reached.
Crio (Macedonia),Creusa (Acaia),Crium (Creta),Cria (Licia)…
Nu-Kria(”new” Kria)…Nu-ceria…Nocera -today.
We are romantic ,our specie.We can’t feel happy if stay at home, but we are nostalgic when we are far from our house….
And Sarrasti? They controlled the vale of Nocera about 300 years and then gave up to other adventurers.
( review of “Storia di Nocera de’Pagani”,G.Orlando,1884)
Vesuvio
There are no doubts,this is the most known volcano in the world. Scientists have an incredible quantity of their devices there, they study it day and night and are sure, know everything about it.
I’ll tell you a little story in this contest.
Some years ago one of the volcanologists become a minister. And he spoke different times to population, telling all, they have not to be afraid about Vesuvius. There is no other volcano we know so good as this, said minister.
I can’t explain you how was it possible - was the same Vesuvius angree with scientists or maybe the mother-nature wanted to show them they have not to be too sure of their knowleges about her -but some days after one of these speeches happens a little eathquake. Just enough to catch out of their houses all residents of one of the villages situating on this mount. It was in winter in the night, people jumped out from their beds and remain till morning clothing their pijamas or what they wore that night in streets waiting for second shake.
Next morning there was no one person in Italy that did not ask that minister: why? And the poor volcanologo could say nothing only “It’s unpossible,because…is unpossible”
Vesuvio is an alown standing mountain. One crater is only 1281 meters, other is 1133 m high. You can visit them.
During it’s life Vesuvio leaved signs in all directions of the region. Last eruption of 1944 covered with 2 m of ashes Salerno distant about 30 km in direct line, I think. Those are not ashes from your oven, but real stones.
Vesuvio is the most famous but not only and not most
interesting volcanic place to visit here.The same Neaples is situating
on many craters. Inside one of them you can even go for a walk. That zone's name is Campi Flegrei and I'll write about it in other articles.
