View over Naples, Italy
Go to any city and there will be groups meeting. Usually the difficulty is finding your way into them, especially if you’re a newcomer and you don’t speak the language. Not so in Naples, Italy.
I arrived here two years ago, and luckily it wasn’t long before I was introduced to the Commonwealth Ladies.
The parade of carriages leaves Piazza del Plebiscito in Naples, Italy, beneath the watchful Castel Sant’Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino
This post is to remember in photographs a parade of carriages and their teams on a morning when the weather played fair.
The setting was Napoli, and it was the Sunday of the last weekend in May 2016. The occasion was to commemorate a day in 1734, also in the month of May, when 18-year-old Carlo di Borbone rode into the city of Naples on the brink of becoming its king.
The Museo Civico Gaetano Filangieri in Naples, Italy
The best treasure comes in chests, compact and crowded, that brim with what’s been most precious … and there should always be scars.
The Museo Filangieri is a chest like this.
The Phraser 