Fenestrella di Marechiaro

This guide to the Fenestrella di Marechiaro in Naples follows the fishing-lane window that inspired Marechiare, the 1885 love song by poet Salvatore Di Giacomo. You'll hear how a glimpsed carnation on a windowsill became an imagined woman named Carolina, and how composer Francesco Paolo Tosti talked Di Giacomo into letting it be sung. Stand at the window itself, kept fresh with a carnation beneath a marble plaque of Tosti's score, in the working fishing village that still lays its catch out on ice along the shore.