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sabato 4 maggio 2013

Giro d' Italia 2013, starting from Naples by our Cioporeporter...

Today the 96th edition of the "Giro d' Italia" has started with a circuit in Naples.

We were present and our Cioporeporter, the yellow one, took a bunch of pics.

Only for your curiosity...

Giro d' Italia caravan...

Giro d' Italia village...

Some Police bikes...

Biscuits mascot...and some nice mascots...

1st referee car...

Another mascot...a tea mascot...

Tobias Ludviggson, Team Argos-Shimano...

Start! The number one, the winner of the last edition,

is with the "maglia rosa", pink shirt,

Ryder Hesjedal Team Garmin Sharp...

The "peloton"...

The first attackers...

And the pursuers...

To the left of the pic the Italian champion...

Again...3rd lap, the attackers...

...and the pursuers...

A lone Aussie attacking...

...and the pursuers...

...again the lone Aussie...

...and pursuers...

...always the lone Aussie...

...and the group reaches the lone Aussie in the 9th lap...

Team Sky is attacking...

Last lap...sprinting for the victory...

Fight for Pink!

The winner of the first stage is Mark Cavendish...

and he' s the new "maglia rosa"...

Other pics of the sprint...

Happy Cycling to All!

domenica 10 febbraio 2013

Royal Palace and no miniatures...Part I

Other pics from Naples...
These are from the Royal Palace and are the first batch...enjoy ;-)

The entrance...

Here' s a brief history of the Royal Palace of Naples:

The Royal Palace of Naples was founded in the year 1600 by the viceroy Fernando di Castro as a palace for the King of Spain. Lived in by Spanish and Austrian viceroys, in 1734 it became the seat of the Kingdom of Naples with the creation of the indipendent Kingdom by Charles of Bourbon and was the royal residence and centre of Bourbon power from that year until 1860.

With the Unification of Italy it became an outlying seat of the unified Kingdom and lived in by the Savoias (Vittorio Emanuele III was born here) until 1946.

Given up with the other royal palaces as state property in 1919, a part of it became the National Library of Naples while the Rooms of the Historic Apartment on the main floor, the oldest and more important for art and history, are a public museum.

The palace was build by the achitect Domenico Fontana (born in Melide near Lucerne in 1543 and died in Naples in 1607).

Restorations works and extensions were led by Ferdinando Sanfelice, Luigi Vanvitelli (who blocked half of the arches of the façade portico creating various niches) and Ferdinando Fuga.

A general restoration of the Royal Palace was carried out between 1838 and 1858 on the wishes of Ferdinando II of Bourbon by the architect Gaetano Genovese.

The main monuments of art are, in the Royal Apartment, the cycles of frescoes from the viceroy period, particularly the “Storie del Gran Capitano” (Stories of the Great Captain) by Battistello Caracciolo and, from the first Bourbon age, the vaulting of the first anti-chamber with “Allegoria delle virtù di Carlo e di Maria Amalia di Sassonia” (Allegory of the virtues of Charles and Maria Amalia of Saxony) by Domenico Antonio Vaccaro (1738).

Among the more important works of decorative art is the precious altar in the Palatine Chapel by Dioniso Lazzari (1674) in semi precious stones and gilded bronze.

The royal stables in the moat toward Castelnuovo, the coach house and the 19^th century garden are among the other visitable areas.