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The adjoining
Museo delle Carrozze
contains a collection of 19th- and 20th-century
carriages but remains closed indefinitely.
TOUR
Tunnel Borbonico
(Bourbon Tunnel; 081 764 58 08;
www.tunnelborbonico.info
; Vico del Grottone 4;
€10; guided tours 10am, noon, 3.30pm & 5.30pm; R2 to Piazza Trieste e Trento)
Run by the Borbonica Sotterranea cultural association, this atmospheric tour will have you
snooping around what was designed as an escape tunnel for the Bourbon royal family.
Tours can be booked on the association's website.
Via Chiaia
( R2 to Piazza Trieste e Trento)
Join the perma-tanned for a spot of window shopping
on this popular pedestrianised strip. Linking Piazza Trieste e Trento with Piazza dei
Martiri, it's a particular hit with evening
flâneurs
, not to mention home to 16th- century
Palazzo Cellamare
at No 149. Built as a summer residence for Giovan Francesco Carafa,
it would go on to host numerous Bourbon royal guests, among them Goethe and Casan-
ova.
Towards the street's western end, what looks like a triumphal arch is in fact a bridge
built in 1636 to connect the hills of Pizzofalcone and Mortella. Past the bridge, turn right
into blue-ribbon Via Gaetano Filangieri and continue up to Via dei Mille, where sharply
garbed locals and shops mix it with flouncy Stile Liberty (Italian Art Nouveau) architec-
ture.
STREET
Piazza dei Martiri
( C24 to Piazza dei Martiri)
If Chiaia is Naples' drawing room, then Piazza dei Martiri
is its chaise longue. The square's centrepiece is Enrico Alvino's 19th-century monument
to Neapolitan martyrs, with four lions representing the anti-Bourbon uprisings of 1799,
1820, 1848 and 1860. At No 30 is
Palazzo Calabritto
, designed by Luigi Vanvitelli, best
known for creating Caserta's epic Palazzo Reale.
Great names of the fashion variety abound around the corner on exclusive Via Calab-
ritto, among them legendary local tailor Finamore (
Click here
)
. On the piazza itself is
PIAZZA
