{"product_id":"naples-9781472142306","title":"Naples","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany Italian cities look back with pride to the days when they were independent republics: Naples, on the contrary, remembers its days as a royal capital, the brilliant administrative and political centre of The Kingdom of The Two Sicilies, ruled over successively by the house of Anjou, Aragon and Bourbon. Once ''the third city of Europe'', today it is one of the least visited of the continent''s great cities. The same bustling lively atmosphere and magnificent buildings that one finds in Paris or London exist here.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is a topographical anthology which recreates for today''s tourist the drama, the history and the life of a city in buildings and locations that still exist today. An indispensable companion, it brings the past of Naples vividly to life for the traveller of the present. Extracts from chronicles, memoirs, biographies, letters and novels refer to the most important and beautiful buildings in and around Naples, as well as the lives of travellers to and resid\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739392127319,"sku":"9781472142306","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781472142306.jpg?v=1720052110","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/naples-9781472142306","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}