Naples Backpackers Travel Wiki

Naples is the capital of Campania region and indeed the whole of the south of Italy. All the historical differences between the north and south of Italy are brought into focus in this charming city. It's a city of extremes, fiercely Catholic, its streets punctuated by bright neon Madonnas cut into niches, its miraculous cults regulating the lives of the people much as they have always done.

Football is something of a religion here, and music has also played a key part in the city's identity, with its own style bound up with the city's strange, harsh dialect and the ...