Trip: 2024 Mar/Apr: Rome; Naples; Sorrento; Salerno; Lecce; Matera; Bari Travel Journal

March/ April 2024 trip: Rome, Naples, Sorrento, Salerno, Lecce, Mater,; Bari
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An adventure circling around cities and towns in southern Italy.

2 Castles & 2 Bonuses

The plan I formulated at lunch for this afternoon was to have a castle theme. My plan called for visiting two castles, the Castel Nuovo...

Naples (Napoli) Began with Pizza

The title of this post notwithstanding, I don’t imagine pizza was responsible for the founding of Naples (Napoli in Italian). But I took the high-speed...

Victor Emmanuel and 3 Churches

The Victor Emmanuel Monument wasn’t in my original thinking for this afternoon. My tentative plan was to visit two or possibly three churches and then...

5 Churches and some Forums

When I left the Capitoline Museums after lunch the steady rain of the morning turned to intermittent rain in the afternoon. But it was still...