Largo Maradona
Wall-sized portrait of a football icon, hand-painted overnight and now hung with scarves, candles and notes.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Largo Maradona in Naples opens with a puzzle: why a twenty-three-year-old waiter named Mario Filardi spent two nights on a ladder painting a wall after Napoli's 1990 league title. It follows him working through the dark by borrowed car headlights, sketching Diego Maradona's face from a single photograph and whatever paint the local fan club could scrape together. The fan club leader parked cars beneath the wall just to keep the headlights trained on it.
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