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Capital of Campania, Naples is the ancient city and a future with wonderful castles - Sant'Elmo Castel, Castel dell'Ovo, Castel Nuovo and Castel Capuano, magnificent churches, opulent as those of monumental Baroque or severity as that of Santa Chiara and San Lorenzo Maggiore, tatra spectacular, from the San Carlo Mercadante, from Bellini to Sannazzaro, and museums all over the known world, Capodimonte, National Archaeological, Filangieri, Floridiana, San Martino and the last secrets of Naples underground with its three thousand caves.
Naples is located on the bay extending from the tip Campanella Posillipo hill and covers an arc of seventy miles. Approaching from the sea, the city offers itself as an immense arena and from where a magnificent show of beauty. Many are the legends about the foundation of Naples, we will remember only that of the sirens, more specifically of the Siren Partenope.

The sirens, lots of land dell'Acheologo, landed on the island of Capri and made his dwelling, preaching to all travelers on their future, and sick. Indeed, in Omero's Odyssey tells us in the adventure of Ulysses, the Sirens and their sweet singing, with the passage of time the sirens were three and they were assigned names indicative of beauty, song and chastity. They, however, after the flagrant suffered from Ulysses, despair and defeat fell into the sea and Partenope left to die on the shores of the Gulf Cumano and that place took the name of Partenope. The story, however, tells us that towards the end of the ninth century BC and start dell'VII Rhodes sailors landed sull'isolotto of colonizing Megaride hill Pizzofalcone. As a continuation of the years, other Greek populations landed on the shores of Naples and in particular calcidiesi and Cumani, coming from the island of Euboea in the eighth century who founded Cuma. Around 680 A.C. Partenope became prosperous and beautiful, thanks to its beautiful places, abundance of land and their wealth, but that, according Lutazio Catulo caused envy among the Cumani destroyed. Again according Catulo, a terrible plague brought unbearable Cuma and Cumani moved in Partenope, rebuilt and renamed Napoli. There were thus two cities, an old Palepoli call and a new call Naples, as evidenced by Tito Livio when he writes:

Palepoli its time to be outside of Naples, but not a lot of distance, and the inhabitants of the two cities one people, and all originated from Cumae.

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