Neapolitan nation in pictures

Pictures of a nation that never really died

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1585. Neapolitanae urbis pars H. Van Cleve - F. Galle

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King of Naples, Francis II, haranguing the troops at the Granili barrack, 15 July 1860. From a sketch sent from Stalnizza (Naples).

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Castello Aragonese di Ortona.

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Royal Palace of Capodimonte. View from the gardens. Naples, 1890.

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Naples, Villa Reale, late 1800s.

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Naples, Central Railway Station, 1880.

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1800. A Plan of the City of Naples. Image copyrighted by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Original publishing by I Stockdale/Piccadilly.

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Kingdom of Naples. Map dated 1570.

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1870 circa; Via Marina when “Castello del Carmine” was still there. The castle was demolished in 1906. Today only its two towers are left. 

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1963, J. F. Kennedy visits Naples. (Colour version)

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Gaetano Brunetti, born in Lecce (Terra d’Otranto), was an MP of the newborn Kingdom of Italy between 1867 and 1870. He once said this

We, Neapolitans, are sometimes inspired by the Neapolitan laws.

Brunetti was referring to the laws of the Kingdom of The Two Sicilies, where he was born. And he called himself a Neapolitan, confirming that the Kingdom’s official nationality was Neapolitan and that Neapolitans was used to identify all the people of the mainland part of the Kingdom (Sicilians retained their name, despite not having a Sicilian nationality).

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Castrum Petrae Roseti, Roseto Capo Spulico, Calabrie. 

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Naples, 1948. WW2 has been over for a few years. Two children play with a broken doll. And seem happy to me.

May God help me to teach my children the true richness of life. That in all conditions of living, whatever comes, may we remember that Jesus Christ is the true eternal treasure.

And that as long as we live here on earth, health and basic living are still the greatest temporal blessings one could have.

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1960s - Tourists eat and drink at sea. (Capri)

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Giacinto Gigante: view of Conocchia

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Cumana Railway Station, Bagnoli, Napoli

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View of Napoli. Lithography from end of 1700s.