Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
SIGHTSEE FOR LESS
If you're planning to blitz the sights, the
Campania artecard
( 800 60 06 01;
www.campaniartecard.it
)
is an excellent investment. A cumulative ticket that covers museum admission
and transport, it comes in various forms. The Naples and Campi Flegrei three-day
ticket
(adult/reduced
€16/10)
gives free admission to three participating sites, a 50% discount on others and free transport in
Naples and the Campi Flegrei. Other options range from €12 to €30 and cover sites as far afield as Pom-
peii and Paestum. Buy the card online, at Stazione Centrale, or at particpating sites and museums.
Castel Sant'Elmo
Offline map
( 081 578 40 30;
www.polomusealenapoli.beniculturali.it
; Via Tito Angelini 22; adult/
reduced €5/2.50; castle 8.30am-7.30pm Wed-Mon, last entry 6.30pm, museum
9am-6pm on the hour Wed-Mon; Vanvitelli, Montesanto to Morghen)
This star-shaped
castle was originally a church dedicated to St Erasmus. Some 400 years later, in 1349,
Robert of Anjou turned it into a castle before Spanish viceroy Don Pedro de Toledo had it
further fortified in 1538. Used as a military prison until the 1970s, it's now famed for its
jaw-dropping panorama, and the
Museo del Novecento
, dedicated to 20th-century
Neapolitan art.
The museum's collection of painting and sculpture documents major influences in the
local art scene, including Futurism and the Nuclear Art movement. Standout works in-
clude Eugenio Viti's sensual
La schiena
(The Back) in Room 7, Raffaele Lippi's unnerv-
ing
Le quattro giornate di Napoli
(The Four Days of Naples) in Room 9, and Salvatore
Cotugno's striking, untitled sculpture of a bound, wrapped, muted figure in Room 17. The
latter strangely echoes Giuseppe Sanmartino's astounding
Cristo velato
(Veiled Christ), in
the Cappella Sansevero (
Click here
)
.
CASTLE, MUSEUM
RICCARDO DALISI & THE ART OF BENEVOLENCE
From his
Dedicate a Klee
sculptures at Salvator Rosa metro station to his quirky light sculptures at La
Stanza del Gusto, the art of Riccardo Dalisi (born 1931) has become iconic within contemporary
Naples. Dubbing himself '
Il designer del opera buffa'
(the designer of humorous creations), Dalisi
turns scrap metal and junk into lively, whimsical sculptures that radiate a fantastical, childlike sensibil-
