Città della Scienza

This guide to Citta della Scienza in Naples opens with a physicist's dream and an arsonist's answer: Vittorio Silvestrini spent years turning a dead corner of the old Italsider steelworks in Bagnoli into a hands-on science museum, until fire broke out in twelve places at once on the night of March 4, 2013. It follows what investigators found, why they ruled out an accident, and why writer Roberto Saviano called it the failure of a different Naples. You'll hear the guesses Neapolitans made about who wanted this land cleared and why. Silvestrini kept working after that night, and the museum around you carries his name into the ground he first built on.