Welcome to the site Napoliforme

Described as "a place so delightful that it perhaps has no equal in Europe", it is the ideal place to stay during the summer season. Before the urban development of the seafront, the beach stretched from the Villa Comunale to Via Posillipo, inhabited by fishermen and also frequented by the fishing-loving Bourbon kings. The sea fillings (late 19th-early 20th century) have redefined the coastline and reduced the sandy shoreline of the past, but the magic of the light between sky and sea, the mild air and the uninterrupted rhythm of the waves offer a natural spectacle that is different every day, in an urban landscape that has few comparisons in the world. The bars along the waterfront, which is always very lively, the boats that crowd the small pier, the stretch of beach that has survived the flooding and still houses the boats and fishermen's nets create a cheerful and lively atmosphere. Called Mirlinum in a thirteenth-century document, the small village was named Mergoglino in the fifteenth century, after the watchtower then standing on the beach. The origin of the name is uncertain, but tradition has no doubts: it derives from the memory of a fisherman in love, Mergellina, bewitched by the song of a mermaid who occasionally approached the beach to enchant passers-by. In an attempt to reach her, the young man swam to the point of exhaustion and death, and legend has it that on summer nights the mermaid returned to repeat her enchantments.