#in Campania

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Positano, Italy: Positano is a village and comune on the Amalfi Coast (Province of Salerno), in Campania, Italy, mainly in an enclave in the hills leading down to the coast. The first evidence of a settlement in Positano dates back to the Upper Palaeolithic, when the "Grotto La Porta" was frequented by gatherers and hunters. This small cave is located at 120 m. o.s.l. and at 10 m. on the highway. Wikipedia

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Maiori, Italy: Maiori is a town and comune on the Amalfi coast in the province of Salerno. It has been a popular tourist resort since Roman times, with the longest unbroken stretch of beach on the Amalfi coastline. Wikipedia

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Night in Pompeii. October 2024. Photos taken by Marco Macri

Night in Pompeii. October 2024

© Marco Macri

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Filippo Palizzi (Italian, 1818-1899)

La fanciulla sulla roccia di Sorrento

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Villa Pappone, Napoli, ITALIA

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(by Dimitry B and Yoosun Won)| Italy

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Reggia di Caserta, Caserta, Campania, Italy,

Designed by Luigi Vanvitelli,

A snowfall had powdered the grounds of the surrounding estate, revealing that the landscape design had been shaped to look like a violin!

Music and musicians were always important to royal courts, who desired musical accompaniment for their religious ceremonies, secular concerts, and fancy banquets. 

Versailles, a model for the Reggia di Caserta, was “the nerve center of instrumental and vocal music for over a century, without a doubt producing the richest and most varied repertoire of all the courts in 17th and 18th century in Europe.” King Charles VII Bourbon wanted his palace in Caserta to rival or even outshine Versailles.

Vanvitelli’s violin design was a way to reclaim cultural relevance for Italy, where popular musical forms, such as opera, and instruments, such as the violin, had been invented.

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Oplontis, Villa di Poppea

La città di Torre Annunziata contiene al suo interno gli scavi di Oplontis. In realtà si tratterebbe più probabilmente di un'area periferica di Pompei, tipo una nostra contrada, piuttosto che una tessuto urbano vero e proprio. Questi scavi sono composti da due ville di cui visitabile, al momento, è solo quella di Poppea.

La villa di Poppea Sabina, seconda moglie di Nerone, è inserita nell'elenco dell'UNESCO relativo al patrimonio dell'umanità ed in effetti si tratta di una monumentale residenza, molto ampia al punto da contenere addirittura un piccolo complesso termale e ricca di affreschi che creano giochi prospettici con finti elementi architettonici quali porte o colonne o che abbelliscono le pareti con raffigurazioni di animali, frutta o maschere.

Al momento dell'eruzione la villa era disabitata perché oggetto di lavori di ristrutturazione come dimostrato dalle suppellettili ammassate in poche stanze e dal materiale edilizio.

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The Priestess of Bacchus by John Collier

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His wife

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Positano, Italy (by Eda Barac)

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~ Gladiator Helmet.

Date: A.D. 50-75

Place of origin: Campania

Place of origin: Pompeii - 1767 (barracks of the Gladiators)

Medium: Bronze, silver

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Atrani, Amalfi Coast, Italy: Atrani is a city and comune on the Amalfi Coast in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy. It is located to the east of Amalfi, several minutes' drive down the coast. The municipality of Atrani has a surface area of 0.12 km², making it the smallest in Italy. Wikipedia

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One of the many mosaic floor of Roman villas in the submerged city of Baiae, on the Gulf of Naples, from late Republic and Augustan times

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Adriano Bonifazi (Italian, 1858-1914)

Ragazza caprese

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