
Naples’ parks and public gardens
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At the top of Posillipo hill, whose name (pausilypon, pause for sorrow) already evokes a mild climate and enchanting scenery, the Virgilian Park was designed between the 1920s and 1930s. Set on a p...
Considered to be the most beautiful promenade in the world since its inauguration in 1781, from where one can admire the natural spectacle of the gulf amidst groves and flower beds, today as in the...
It rises from the city centre towards the Vomero hill, climbing up the side of the hill in an animated path, offering suggestive panoramic views of the gulf and the old city centre. The park, opene...
From the heart of the city, towards the Vomero hill. The park, created in 1997, covers an area of about 8,000 square metres and climbs up towards the hill area on the tuffaceous ridge between Via A...
A green area par excellence in the Vomerese hills, the park surrounds the neoclassical villa purchased by King Ferdinand I of Bourbon as a gift for the Duchess of Floridia, Lucia Migliaccio, his se...
A place of memory, it is a crossroads of myth, history, poetry and nature. Vergigliano houses the 'Sepulchre of Virgil', the great Mantuan poet who loved the city, and was restored and inaugurated ...
A break in tranquillity and nature wedged in one of the most animated areas of the historic centre. The staircase to the left of the church of San Giovanni a Carbonara (1343-1418) marks the entranc...
On the Camaldoli hill, at the highest point of the city, at the gateway to the Camaldolese hermitage. Inaugurated in 1997, the park covers 137 hectares. The surface is mainly a continuous wood of c...
With its 120 hectares, the wood is one of the green 'lungs' of Naples. A testament to the Bourbons' passion for hunting and botany, it was created at the same time as the Royal Palace, and was laid...
Inspired by the fashion of the time (1842), it follows the sinuous and apparently irregular 'English' style of the romantic garden, with paths oriented towards the scenic views of the gulf, Vesuviu...
In the private flats on the piano nobile of the Royal Palace there is a surprising green space overlooking the gulf. From the columned vestibule on the first floor of the palace, there is access to...
Few traces remain of the olive and vineyard landscape of the Vomerese hill: a rustic estate on the edge of the Petraio slope with orchards, vineyards and vegetable garden areas until the 19th centu...
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