Naples
2022, Oct 08
Trip Report Summary
| Travel Dates | Oct 08-Oct 10 |
| Highlights | The Naples Underground |
Travel Notes
- Naples was an experience. It was very different from the previous two places we've been. The streets were grungy with graffiti everywhere. It has a completely different vibe. Their shopping district was so dirty with garbage overflowing onto the streets, but it was also filled with high fashion brands, which made the contrast very interesting.
- An interesting thing about Naples was the explosion of micro-mobility there. Electrical scooters were everywhere, which made it very convenient. But also added to the messiness of the area since the scooters were dropped everywhere and piled up everywhere.
- We found a random restaurant on 53, where the food was surprisingly good. The appetiser was 4 plates of different seafood. It was probably the meal with the most value on the entire trip.
- We went to the Naples underground, and I thought it was the most fascinating historical place we went on the trip. The Aquaducts were built by the Greeks 600 BC and covered 400 km^2. It was created when the Greeks were settling into the area, but the Romans connected the individual wells, which were functional until the 1800s. After that due to some industrialization, the wells were contaminated and shut down. They were reused again in WW2 as bomb shelters and turned into an underground city.
- After the underground, we were planning to go to Pompeii, but figured it was too late, so we ended up going to the National Museum of Archeology. It had the most amount of intact relics of the Roman period. It was fascinating to see how advanced the Romans were; they had surgical tools, proper metallurgy, and the scientific process of experimentation and validation. It was a bit sad to learn that after the fall of the Roman period, the Western world went into the dark ages where everything had to essentially be rediscovered.
