Somehow, stone and earth rose out of the ground and took over an entire city block in Naples…
Tag: naples
No longer able to protect the castle, the city of Naples surrounded it with cement barricades and fencing…
Near the docks in Naples is a gloomy little carnival with carefully crafted Disney characters that include a Mickey Mouse dispensing gas and Buzz Lightyear propped up in a tea-cup.
Maybe I can be one of those people who shoot photos of lone ships on the horizon. And I can tell people these photos are metaphors for life. Man versus nature. Or nature versus man. And I can start a little blog called “Fake Mountain” that is littered with irrelevant and sarcastic photos that only occasionally capture the strange and subtle ways we still manage to connect with nature.. Nah… that would be lame.
Random bulwarks like this appear around Naples. The city has risen and fallen many times and the people are often forced to build around earlier civilizations.
Just to be clear, this entire building is not a hotel. The hotel is only one apartment on the seventh floor.
It was the mischievous monk Dominic Benedicto San De Carbunkle who first decided to grow weeds on the steeple of the 13th century church, Santa Maria Del Carmine…
We spent the holidays in southern Italy. Here is a crowded alley in the old city of Naples.