Can you imagine that under the center of Naples there hypogea dating from the Hellenistic to 2400 years ago? Come with us ... Aflo

1. by Aflo

3. Naples is a city unique in that keep hidden in the pre-existing subsoil and traces of the urban fabric, traces that provide a number of historical and artistic-stratification cultural exception. Why for which UNESCO has included the center in 1995 Town of Naples in the World Heritage List Humanity. The perimeter of the center includes the historic village of Virgin and Health. The area of the Virgin-health since the fourth century. a. C. was intended for burial, with the first excavation chamber tombs (Via dei Crystal, Vico Traeger, Via Santa Maria Antesaecula), then with the creation of complex Cemetery catacomb (San Gennaro, San Gaudioso, San Severo) and finally with the target of a huge cava ossuary (Le Fontanelle) In the above context, the hypogea Funeral Are a superb use of the Hellenistic subsoil, bearing witness with their own mark the extraordinary and monumental Greek representing the culture in which acknowledged the ruling class. Mainly located along the axis that the suburban north gate of the city walls of Neapolis climb down the hill Capodimonte, currently at a depth varying between 8 and 12 meters, attended until to the Imperial Age, you have carved fully recorded in the tufa water runoff erosion. The fronts of the underground, often architectures high artistic quality, model without solution of continuity, the development of the walls rock. The area, like most today, affected by a progressive burial result of strong saw flooding, with the physical obliteration of tombs, the disappearance of the monuments memory. In the basement of the Health District a journey into our roots by visiting extraordinary Hellenistic funerary tombs. Few know that in the heart of the District Health, in the same street that saw the great Totò, there are groups of underground funerary monuments dating back to 3-4 century BC, the greek period or in Naples. These subterranean cavities throughout history have always been known and used as capacious rainwater tanks, or as landfill from the early twentieth century. He understood the importance, however, only in 1981 with the visits undertaken after the earthquake, to verify the static nature of the buildings that surround it. Thanks to the efforts of volunteers of Celanapoli (www.celanapoli.it), and the efforts of its founder Charles Leggieri, now you can visit these wonders. Descending into the basement of a lower Antesaecula Street No. 129, Valuing the underground Health is a duty, it is here more than it would in any other place, to get the tourism district would be so difficult a vital message of hope for improvement, just normal. Celanapoli Greetings !

4. Project already started to unearth the Hellenistic Ipogei Funeral Naples

5. In this house was born the Prince De Curtis - Totò

6. The entrance of the ruins in Via Santa Maria Antesaecula 129 where we meet il Dr. Carlo Leggieri founder of the association, our guide

23. Centuries ago these places were used as landfill so we can find anything

28. Going up the pass

29. Let's go back to the house hoping that the Superintendent of goods Cultrali soon send the funds pledged. You can not dig with his hands to unearth in the light of these treasures. We thank Dr. Carlo Leggieri www.celanapoli.it [email_address] Slide and elaboration property of Antonio Florino At the piano Cortazar _La vida es bela