Naples is an Italian city, famous for its history, its art, its form of theater, its music and for its culinary tradition.
Naples at the time of the Roman Empire
It was one of the most important cities of Magna Graecia and after the collapse of the Roman Empire was the capital of the autonomous duchy of the Kingdom of Naples and capital of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies under the Bourbons until the Unification of Italy.
Opera buffa
Naples was a global reference point for classical music and gave rise to opera buffa.
Thanks to the tradition of figurative arts, it gave rise to original architectural and pictorial movements such as the Neapolitan Renaissance, the Neapolitan Baroque, Caravaggism...
The triumphal arch of Castel Nuovo in Naples: the beginning of the Renaissance
The Neapolitan Baroque
The Caravaggism