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O Sole Mio! Naples

We will be arriving in Naples, Capri ITALY! on Tuesday May 25, 2010 the first of five ports of call.

Fun Facts

Naples currently has a higher birth rate than other parts of Italy with 10.46 births per 1,000 inhabitants compared to the Italian average of 9.45 births.[cb says More about this later.]

‘Santa Lucia’, ‘O Sole Mio’ and ‘Funiculi Funicla’ have their roots in a festival hosted in the Festival of Piedigrotta, which began in 1830, in Naples, Italy.

Pizza was invented in Naples and is v-e-r-y serious business.

Web Bites

Naples is ranked fourth in Italy, for economic strength, after Rome, Milan and Turin.

Naples has over 440 churches.

Underneath Naples there is a series of caves and structures created by centuries of mining, which is in part of an underground geothermal zone.

ITALY HAS WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE CONDOMS - read about it here [cb says This may be contributing to the baby boom?!]

Just * The * Facts

Elevation: 289 feet
Latitude: 40 53N Longitude: 014 18E
Avg Temp: 64
Avg High: 72
Avg Low: 55
Avg Precipitation: 2
Naples is the third largest city in Italy, with a population of over 1.5 million.

See you next week on Deck 13 when we travel to the highly anticipated capital of Italy - Rome Baby Rome!