Mercato Porta Nolana
Seafood market held under a fortified fifteenth-century gate, filled with singing vendor cries.
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This guide to Mercato Porta Nolana in Naples starts with the stone statue of Ferrante the First, king of Naples, carved into the gate sometime in the 1460s or 70s to guard the road east to Nola. It follows the revolt of Naples' great barons against him in the 1480s, his apparent forgiveness, and the winter feast at his castle to which he invited the very men who had risen against him. Around you the market's fishmongers still sing the abbanniata, the singing vendor's cry that has echoed under Ferrante's stone gaze for centuries.
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