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04/10/2021
I've been thinking about it for a while. Even if it was my grandfather’s island and, by birth,...
This is the story of Procida, intimate and tiny (3.7 square kilometers), immersed in the Tyrrhenian Sea like the grumpy pearl of a wild oyster, so fascinating as to tickle medieval fantasies, poems and visions of storytellers launched on the routes of distant paradises. Today the navigators of summer arrive, and it is a fatal place for artists, a sublime set for cinema.
The smallest of the Flegrean Islands and the Campanian Archipelago covers an area of 4.26 square kilometers, entirely included in the territory of the Municipality of Procida, which also includes the nearby uninhabited island of Vivara. It has over 10 thousand inhabitants and is part of the Metropolitan Area of Naples.
The imagination of the contemporary traveler gets lost in the alleys, after crossing Piazza del Plebiscito, touching the Royal Palace, the San Carlo Theater, and Via Toledo, aiming here and there at the surprising green patches of Capodimonte, the vegetable gardens and the Posillipine parks and the coastal cliffs of yellow tuff.
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