Welcome to the site Napoliforme

Via Partenope, a promenade ideal for walking and cycling, is a succession of breathtaking views towards the sea and meeting places, restaurants and bars on the upstream side. In the area opposite Castel dell'Ovo and Borgo Marinari, some of the city's most famous historic luxury hotels were built between the late 1800s and early 1900s. Such as the Vesuvio, destroyed by bombing during the Second World War and rebuilt in 1950 - and which hosted the White House delegation for the G7 in 1994 - and the Excelsior Hotel, opened to the public in 1908, with its original Art Nouveau façade and furnishings, as was the fashion at the time. A more or less 'aristocratic' political, cultural and social stage, the refined period setting of the Excelsior Hotel welcomed countless celebrities throughout the last century. Rulers and princes, industrialists and financiers, heads of state (Theodore Roosevelt, Helmut Kohl, Hilary Clinton, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Giorgio Napolitano...), film stars (Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Lemmon, George Sanders, Orson Welles, Claudia Cardinale, Marcello Mastroianni, Alberto Sordi...), writers, artists and scientists (Rudyard Kipling, Riccardo Muti, Richard Strauss, Andy Wharol, Rita Levi Montalcini...) all dazzled by the beauty and lights of the gulf. Chosen by television and film productions as a setting, in 1953 Roberto Rossellini shot some of the opening scenes of Viaggio in Italia in the hotel rooms: Katherine and Alex Joyce (Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders) stay at the Excelsior, before reaching the villa on the slopes of Vesuvius inherited from an uncle.