Laes cultural association founded by Michele Quaranta offers a fascinating journey through the belly of Naples.
Accompanied by the same professor. Forty descend the 250 steps leading to the lower town was dug by 45 centuries ago and used for the extraction of pozzolana, lapilli tuff and yellow used for the construction of Naples greek-roman and later Angevin, Aragonese, English, Bourbon, Unitarian ...
cross underground cavities, passages and tunnels intercommunication between castles and fortresses, along a labyrinthine aqueduct used over the centuries for the supply of Roman villas, like those of Lucullus and Pollio, English neighborhoods, mansions and palaces of the bourgeoisie to Naples throughout 1800. We are transformed in the belly of Naples in the years of World War II air raid shelter. The excitement here is great. Below you will find shelter about four people: mothers with young children, disabled and elderly people unable, after the raids, to deal with the slope, then forced to remain below for months. Along the walls
Michele Quaranta pages of history shows scratches from hospital: sacred symbols, dates, dedications (Aldo and Marisa now married), caricatures of Mussolini, Charlie Chaplin, Hitler, flags, military, boats, submarines, planes and scenes bombing.
Started in Via S. Anna di Palazzo 52 (Headquarter Laes), the path ends after about one hour on the busy Via Chiaia teeming with tourists oblivious to what exists in the subsoil.
E 'for over 30 years that Michele Quaranta is dedicated to his Naples Underground, a project that has made known to the world. His was a toilsome journey, sometimes hampered by bureaucracy. "Everything has been done below - Forty points out - is the result of volunteer work, my chair and members of the Association. We dug with their hands tonnes of debris and waste. Still needs to be done. Missing funds. As you turn you hear people say: 'No money'. We - he says, pointing readers and certificates - is a major cultural recognized by law "and adds:" Just as the belly of Paris, London or Berlin, ours is a site of great historical interest. Below are down across the world television. Rai and De Agostini including National Geographic, for one, has produced a public service television on You Tube. The acoustics here, then perfect. E 'can hold exhibitions, concerts, meetings and conferences. Recently, a group of 50 U.S. managers, led the tour Cucari Ettore, President Fiavet Campania-Basilicata, was fascinated. "
commendable job, to support and encourage this by Michele Quaranta, based on the desire to do well for their city, and to better know their origins to the Neapolitans themselves. Toni Cosenza
Info: Naples underground: Laes Association (Freedom Underground Hikers Association) Via S.
Teresella of Spaniards, 24 -80132 Naples Te. 081 400256 - Cell 333 97 2987 5
www.lanapolisotterranea.it
laes@lanapolisotterranea.it
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