Vomero
Hillside district reached by three funicular railways engineered to conquer a cliffside grade.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Vomero in Naples opens on an October morning in 1889, with a carful of passengers at the foot of a steep hill and a question: who would back a ride like that? It takes in the farm fields once called Broccoli Hill, a name that may come from the ploughshare, and the bank that ruled straight streets across them in 1885. Best heard on foot, with the slope beneath you.
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