EuroAdventure15: Exploring Napoli
(posted by Emily) 8 July 2015 Naples, Italy ~23,000 steps (~10 miles walked) On Wednesday morning, we woke up a bit before 8 in order to have breakfast in Federica's apartment. She was already off to work, but left us a sweet note with suggestions of what to do for the day and checking in to make sure we felt at home in her little flat. We decided to explore the ancient city center of Naples, and with the help of her detailed maps (walking routes highlighted in yellow, sights to see in pink), we were off. There is a long narrow strip of the city that runs east/west and contains a huge number of churches. It was hard to keep them all straight, but fascinating to see the differences in architecture and style, based on how old they were. We probably popped in to 6 or 7 different ones! Because it was more simple, less ornate, we could tell this church was older. One of the narrow Napoli streets Some sort of a film being shot outside this church At some point, we noticed we had p...