The Sea Front
This section of the sea
front is relatively
recent. The road
running along under the trees is named Via Caracciolo, after the Neapolitan
admiral of the late 18th century. It runs from Mergellina (where this photo
was taken from) along the Villa Comunale
( the public park and once Royal
Gardens of the Bourbons).
The red
building directly above the trees is
the Nunziatella military academy. The
road,
the breakwater, this entire section of the sea front is the result of
the
massive building campaign undertaken as part of the
urban renewal of Naples in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Before
that, the sea washed up to about where the tree-line in the photo is.