When I was in Naples last time I was so fortunate to find New Castel opened for visitors and took some photos that you can see here
Chapels Of The New Castel, Naples
Shopping In Naples
and in other posts. Here I want to show you some general photos of that city.
This is the very first view on Naples from the expressway Salerno-Napoli
This is the Directional Center of the city. I worked once one month there. It's a great quantity of buildings for offices. Only offices and shops and bars that persons of that offices can need for their job.
I think you will admire this photo on the Naples
Finally this completly surrealistic view on the touristic port from New Castel. I add the address of the original big photo to allow you to have the right feeling of what you see there. Click on the photo.
Jul 1, 2009
First Time Naples
Jun 16, 2009
Better Herculaneum /Ercolano Or Pompei?
You could see some photos of Herculaneum in my other posts
Pictures On The Walls In Herculaneum/ Ercolano
Vesuvius In Action
and maybe you've asked yourself, what it is?
To be very short, those are excavations of a Roman town, situated under the modern settling, dead during the same eruption of Vesuvius that burried Pompei and forgotten for centuries.
This is the look on the excavations from the access-way.
Upper level with greenery are the villas, very good conservated, middle level with pedestal are suburban baths, finally the low level are -maybe, I think so- the places where 300 sceletrons were found.
Many years ago I was in Pompei and there was practicaly nothing to admire except the walls of the town. Mosaics, pictures, staues -everything is removed and is in the museums. What is not removed is closed and you can enter inside only if you pay a guide (that is very expensive). Ercolano seemed to me much more interesting. The streets and the houses are entire, there are many paintings and other things -you have not use all your immagination to understand what it was and how these persons lived.
In this post I want to present you only general look on some streets of Herculaneum.
These 2 photos represent look in the direction of suburban baths. In fact, the black holes in the end of the streets are passes to the square you've seen on the second level of the first photo.
This other photo is a look in the direction of main street. I did not understand sincerely, why they needed that big stone on the street? To make the cars go slower?
Finally main street with pubblic water and... what you think?... Shops in every door and hole! (read my posts about Shopping In Salerno). Is it possible that the style of life did not change for 2000 years in Italy???
Read more about the art in the houses of Romans in these posts:
Pictures On The Walls In Herculaneum/ Ercolano 1
Floors If The Roman Houses 2
Decorate Your House With Bás-Reliefss And Sculpturs 3 Sphere: Related Content
Jun 8, 2009
We Visited The Crater Of Vesuvius Too
This is the long photo reportage about our visit to the crater of Vesuvius. In my precedent post Vesuvius In Action I wrote some words more about this mountain. We continue the overview of the volcanos that I began some time ago (Active Volcanos and Fuji And Vesuvio).
We had to go up the mountain with the car till the quoter of 1000 meters where we could leave the car and pay the tcket.
From that point we had to go at feet and the map says there is about 3800 m long path to walk. The path was surely not the best we've ever seen in the life. Specially we were with a little girl. But on our way we've seen very old persons, the persons with different health problems (till a broken leg!) that wanted to see the crater too.
Near the crater you can continue to walk the same path and there are touristic guides you can follow (service include in the ticket).
On the right side you see infinite world
This is the right side of the same crater
And this is the left side
There were not smokes of other activities in that moment. The only "special effect" were the stones felt from the bord of the crater and we could hear sounds they created. My brother was very afraid and wanted to turn back home from there. I have to say you, my husband NEVER went there in all the life.
-And if the eruption beginns now???
-Well, it's good, we will dey all together in the same moment like in the fables, we joked.
Read more:
What Is Infinity
Vesuvius In Action
The Ways In Italy
What Is Excellent In Italy
Около Кратера Везувия-2
Около Кратера Везувия
После Гулек
Ещё Пара Фоток
Через Перевал
А Мы Тут Гуляем
We Visited The Crater Of Vesuvius Too
Classic Life In The Mountains
Jun 6, 2009
Vesuvius In Action
I visited different important places of Campania/Italy with my relatives this week and wanted to dedicate some posts to these trips.
Today I show you some photos about the distructive nature of Vesuvius. If you remember, I wrote about volcanoes in the last period (Active Volcanos and Fuji And Vesuvio for example) and so with this and next posts we continue the talk about them.
I try to insert big photos in the html code, so -I hope- if you click on the photo you have to pass to the original big photo.
Well, here we are on the way to the 1000 m quote where it's possible to leave the car. From that place all visitors have to go about 4 km-s till the cratere.
Vesuvius has nothing special and is not more scary as any other mountain I've seen in my life if you see it from this place.
To turn you more close to the reality, the way is full of the modern sculptures (I'm sure I've not seen them when I was here about 10 years ago). This one specially produced great impression on me (after infinite quantity of hairpins that made me half alive half dead).
Here, on the right behind the light, you can see the level of the streets today and the wall of the volcanic ashes in the background on the left. This is the town of Herculaneum, one of the different Roman towns buried by the eruption of 79.
Here you can see it better, the wall of boiled (during eruption) ashes felt on the heads of the persons. By the way, the t° of it is 500-600°C, and human meat vaporizes by contact with it.
Finally this interesting photo. Modern life and antique town together. Only a little part of the Roman town is possible to see today, the excavations. The modern town grew on the same place where was situated forgotten Herculaneum. Nobody remembered it. There was only the story written by Plinius-jun. about a splendid port near Vesuvius that was lost under the lava during the eruption of Vesuvius. But nobody wanted beleave him. Everybody said, it was a fable...
Jun 2, 2009
Your Unforgettable Alaska Travel
The most important attractives in Alaska Travel are surely National Parks. These are maybe the better organized places to see real wildlife, uncontaminated nature, natural environment and it's spectacular events. Everything you've watched in your preferite documentaries is possible to find visiting Alaska where you will find all you need to have a good vacation like comfortable lodges and special roads for the walks, full day and half day cruises, visits to the museums and cities.
Travel Alaska means explore this country in every season. Because every month offers here different attractions and it's unpossible to list all them in this post. From the glaciers and wild beauty of the Fjords to the northern lights and 24-hour days - it's difficult if possible that you find all this in one place in an other part of our planet.
One of Alaska's best places is Denali Park that you can visit with one day tour or reserve a lodge stay and enjoy some days or weeks of your vacation among the wildlife. This National Park has 100 miles of road and 15 of them are unrestricted. You can see the wildlife directly from the road there. The stuff organizes trips and events to allow the visitors to see different wild animals wildlife sightings. It will be surely one of your best vacations in the life.
The Ways In Italy
The ways in Italy have some peculiarities.
First of all, the old medieval towns have very narrow streets. The new "fashion" of the last years is to create one way directions. So, if you are labytinth lover you HAVE to go with your car in Italy. Without navigator. Your trip will assume sids of extreem journey.
The other peculiarity are the deep-lunged torques when you have to rise the mountains.
What Is Excellent In Italy
We have my cousin and his family here this days. They are for the first time in Italy and had never see a sea before. So they are enjoying the life even if the weather is very very bad. They were fortunate because they could stay on the beach the first day they came here.
But we can learn what is perfect in Italy observing them.
First of all, the beach.
Clearly it is the best beach we have here. It's too far, about an hour of driving from our house, but it is really perfect. The air is terribly good. You can not breath enough when you are there. There are pines nearby and the white sand. The water was warm and the girls did not want go out all 5 hours they were there.
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The other is the pizza.
As in every business, there are good cooks and bad cooks. My husband took pizza from our preferite pizzeria (the shop where it is made for your eyes) for them yesterday. They tasted it so as it was the best food in the world. Pizza in Germany, told they, is completely different.
Next good thing in Italy is coffee.
Italians (and I now too) make it using a special coffee machine. And coffee is completely different from what you can drink in other countries even if you go in bar and order "espresso". Here I can testimonial because I tasted it in different places like Amsterdam, Moscow, München etc.
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On the photo coffee machines for 2 and for 6 persons.
And then, they had a grave incident -they were not prudent to live a bag with their clothes on the back sit of the car, and some delinquents broke the glass and stole the bag. Imagne the tragedy. But all the Italians that saw it and understood they do not can speack and are foreigners helped them. They assisted them on every step letterally.
May 31, 2009
Why Is It Nocera "Inferiore"
Here on the second photo is the part of Nocera Superiore. With Vesuvio on the background. And there is Nocera Inferiore too.
So you can understand the difference. Nocera Inferiore ("low") are many very little settlings in the lower part of the valley. Nocera Superiore ("higher") are many settlings situated on the hill part of the territory of Nocera.
If you are interested in the antique history, the territory of Nocera was the place of many impressionant and tragic human stories. And was very important town from IX cent. BC till around VII century.
May 27, 2009
Direct TV Moves With Me
My husband can't live without TV. He passes hours and hours with this his "friend". So, we were interested to fnd a dealer that will offer us many channels, good quality and good costs. Collegues told him about Direct TV and we've sweetched to it. We are content: we have over 130 digital quality picture and sound channels (except others) and the costs are beyond all doubt more interesting as we had before.
I'm not interested in sports and games that are featured in Directv, it's my husband that is a fan of them. I don't understand men: everyday he has to watch all the news and Sunday is now a Holyday, all dedicated to sports. He watches every game of NFL SUNDAY TICKET every Sunday now.
Well, the good news was we will find Direct TV in California when we move there. Customer service is one of the best nationwide. And than we had free installation in 4 rooms and free handling and delivery because ordered online. I can watch my HD documentaries and local channels and my husband has his sports and news at any time he wants them. Happy family with happy TV solution. Do you think, it's a joke? No. It's reality.
May 22, 2009
About People In Turkey
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The photos you see here are all from Antalya, a city situated in Turkey. I heard about it the first time just some minutes ago and wanted to investigate a little about this interesting place.
As you see on the photos, it has not only beautiful nature but very ancient history that remembers Romans and Greeks (in fact, it's name is Greek). It was part of different Empires and states and every culture leaved there it's buildings and habits. It's very interesting.
One of my friends went to visit Turkey many many years ago, when the tourists were not too common all over the world. She came there with her husband that was a sailor. So, when they were in the ports of Turkey and worked there she had time to visit the cities. She spoke english and franch only and did not know any word in Turkish. And imagine, she left her way.
She told me, one seller from a little shop, where she entered to ask where to go, not only explained her what to do -even if he did not know to speak any language she spoke!- he asked her to rest a minute and offered her a cup of tea with bisquits and other turkish sweet specialities.
She was so delighted by the behaviour of that man! She said, she has never seen such a person and hospitality in all her life.
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May 17, 2009
Active Volcanos
I wrote about Vesuvio in my previous post and we spoke just different times that it's terrible to live near an active volcano. I thought about the volcanoes in Italy like Etna and Stromboli that are always active, not like Vesuvio and Solfatara in our zone that produce only gas actually, even if Vesuvio, they say, is one of the most dangerous volcanos on the Earth (It's eruption will be as a very powerful explosion.) So I wanted to look for information about other active volcanos.
I found that the name "active" means that this one erupted in the last 10 000 years. Not that it's erupting now like Etna for example. And there are different volcanos like that. Here for example the highest volcano in Russia, Kljuchevskaja Sopka (4750 m).
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The other is Popocatépētl in Mexico (5452 m)
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And here Etna (3340 m)
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Gekla/ Island (1491 m)
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May 12, 2009
Fuji And Vesuvio
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After the last earthquacke in Abruzzo we speak an think relatively often about Japan. Because this country is also situated in a place where the earthquackes are often but we rarely hear that the Japanese have so many problems with them as Italy has. How is it possibe? Maybe there is nobody who invents to build houses with sand there. Maybe it's unpossible there. For Italy the 5 grades earthquacke was a national tragedy. Is something like this possible in Japan? Did you know that the scientists from Japan came to visit Abruzzo after the last earthquacke?
Mount Vesuvio, that is situated not far from our house, is not so high, only 1281 m. On the photo from Wikipedia it is seen from satellite. Do you note the difference between these two satellite photos? No one house round the Fuji and only houses around Vesuvio. You hardly can find a piece of earth there. 
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May 6, 2009
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May 5, 2009
Long The Iteneraries Of The Pilgrimages
«ДУАМО» на Яндекс.Фотках
Did you know that the biggest gottic cathedrals and monasteries are situated long the iteneraries of the medieval piligrimages?
I knew about it only some days ago. I've never thought it could be a precise plant to follow behind all these constructions. Now I wanted to go in depth with this question and found an interesting article (in Italian) about it. If you look on the map, is written there, you will see that all these buildings (cathedrals and monasteries) are distant more or less the same one from the other. It was because the piligrims could find place to sleep etc. every night. The important points were -in Spain (Jaca, Loarre, Frómista, San Isidro di León, Santiago de Compostela), in France (Sainte-Foy, Saint-Sernin, Saint-Gaudens, Saint-Sever).
Returning to the gotic cathedrals (the most beautiful for me) they say that they are "children" of Templars (Knights Templar Places In Europe ) and full of mystic symbols and similar. The style is completely new for that period and comes in Europe when Templars turn back from Palestine -about 1128.
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Viking's Boats
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Just because I began to write about Norway where I dream to go one day, I wanted to tell about an interesting museum I read about. It's museum of Viking's boats. It is situated in Oslo. What I liked when I visited Finnland -and I understood the system is the same in orway too- they have very interesting museums. Not only the exposition of anonimous things as in any other museum. It is not interesting if there is nobody who could explain you what it is and rarely there are special persons to do it. You have to pay to have information.
That museums are made so, that you can see the scenes and even touch, wear, partecipate. Very interesting.
«Лодка викингов» на Яндекс.Фотках
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