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SPACCANAPOLI:
The axis of Spaccanapoli, which cut the City into two from the
hills of San Martino and Forcella, gives its name to one of
the oldest districts of the City. The district is built on a
typical structure, similar to a chessboard, from the Greek colonies,
and is still intact. The Neapolitan nobles constructed their
palaces and Renaissance residences which all continued along
the road. On Spaccanapoli, you can find the road of the pastor
San Gregorio Armeno, renowned worldwide for its evocative Christmas
cribs, which the Neapolitan artisans produce by tradition.
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PALAZZO
BERIO: was constructed in the 17th Century by a Portuguese
financier, Simon Vaez, Count of Mola, and restructured in 1772
by Luigi Vanvitelli, for the Tomacelli Family. It was then bought
by Giovan Domenico Berio, Marquis of Salza, who had the sculpturer
Canova as his guest, as well as Gioacchino Rossini and Stendhal.
It's in front of the Barbaia Palace. History says that Domenico
Barbaia, from Milan, entrepreneur of the San Carlo Theatre (10
minutes walk from the Hotel) had invited Rossini to Naples as
a guest in his palace, giving him complete use of it. The musician,
a well known 'man about town' used and abused this hospitality,
without writing a thing. Due to this, Barbaia, in a few weeks
from the "first," took control of the Palace and insisted
he wrote. It was in this period, in that very Palace, that Rossini
composed Othello.
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