{"id":6930,"date":"2005-09-23T17:52:02","date_gmt":"2005-09-24T00:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=6930"},"modified":"2011-12-04T19:08:33","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T03:08:33","slug":"arrival-in-naples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2005\/09\/23\/arrival-in-naples\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrival in Naples"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m really looking forward to this vacation – work has been hard recently (but also rewarding to me) and taking a break now is a good thing I think. As usual, I’m bringing some books along, as I love to read while on vacation.<\/p>\n

We’re lucky – we had enough miles with Northwest to get a pair of coach seats on all the flights on this trip, along with enough points to stay at the Marriott Mediterraneo in downtown Naples for free.<\/p>\n

We arrived in Naples, waited and waited for our bags which finally showed up, and took a rapid cab ride to the hotel. We cleaned up and went out to see a few sites.<\/p>\n

We walked by the oldest bank in Italy, Banco di Napoli. The facade is very facist, done by one of the most important architects of that period.<\/p>\n

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The facade of Banco di Napoli<\/p><\/div>\n

We started with a famous shopping plaza located near the hotel, Galleria Umberto I. Its roughly a cross shape with a very high glass and iron roof and a highly decorated interior and a dome. It seems very similar to a shopping structure next to the Duomo in Milan.<\/p>\n

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The Galleria Umberto I shopping structure<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Galleria Umberto I shopping structure<\/p><\/div>\n

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There is a branch of Antonveneta in the mall - ABN AMRO is trying to buy this bank right now<\/p><\/div>\n

We walked down to the Piazza Plebiscito, which has the Palazzo Reale on one side and S. Francesco Di Paola on the other. S. Francesco Di Paola is modeled after a combination of St. Peters in the Vatican City (the columnade) and the Pantheon in Rome (the interior).<\/p>\n

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The facade of S. Francesco Di Paola<\/p><\/div>\n

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A view of the ceiling of S. Francesco Di Paola<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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