"Napule è mille culure, Napule è mille paure" (Naples is a thousand colors, Naples is a thousand fears) reads one of the most famous songs dedicated to the city. Words that express the uniqueness of Naples, a labyrinth of contradictions where Mediterranean light and harmony live together with the pitfalls of a chaotic and a metropolis impossible to decode.

It has gone through and suffered more dominations than any other Italian city: Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Normans, Anjous, Aragons, Spanish, Austrians, French under Napoleon, Bourbons until the unification of Italy. In its streets are the architectonic traces that tell of all of these historic phases.

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