: Campania
Regions of Italy
: Campania
A land full of contradictions, Campania has nowadays 5,790,000 inhabitants. It’s the first region in Italy as for demographic density. The environment of Campania (“campus” in Latin means countryside) with its hills, mountains, flatlands, includes among other things seismic areas and volcanic massifs: Vesuvio, Campi, Flegrei. The archipelago of Campania counts three marvellous islands: Ischia, Procida and Capri.
In an ancient age the region saw the presence of the “Osci”, than of the Greek colonists (Cuma and Partenope) and later of the “Sanniti”. Past the Roman age and right in the Middle [Read more...]
A land full of contradictions, Campania has nowadays 5,790,000 inhabitants. It’s the first region in Italy as for demographic density. The environment of Campania (“campus” in Latin means countryside) with its hills, mountains, flatlands, includes among other things seismic areas and volcanic massifs: Vesuvio, Campi, Flegrei. The archipelago of Campania counts three marvellous islands: Ischia, Procida and Capri.
In an ancient age the region saw the presence of the “Osci”, than of the Greek colonists (Cuma and Partenope) and later of the “Sanniti”. Past the Roman age and right in the Middle Age it was the turn of Longobards and Normans. Through centuries other occupations followed: that of Spain and of Napoleon (viceroy: Gioacchino Murat). During eight hundred, under the Bourbons, the region voiced strong liberal clamours, thanks to an enlightened and well educated middle-class.
Stendhal described Neapolis as “the only feasible European capital city”. As a matter of fact, we shall not forget what this land gave to Italian and world culture, with philosophers like Giambattista Vico and Giordano Bruno. And how not to mention the medieval school of medicine of Salerno, and, recently, many actors and characters (De Filippo, Totò); and the extraordinary contribution to the easy listening of nine hundred (Carosone, Peppino di Capri), with unrepeatable expressions of vitality, melancholy and popular irony.
After Puglia, Campania is yet the most industrialized region of southern Italy – despite its problems with employment and peace. And Neapolis, as for volume of passengers, is the second port in the world, after Hong Kong. Centered in its bay, the city holds an extremely valuable historical center.
The economy mirrors the contraddictions of the entire area, alternating periods of growth (tertiary, trades, and food industry for conserves) and critical phases (Italsider by Bagnoli). Important touristic flows towards the coasts of Amalfi and Sorrento. As the latter, other provinces are Benevento (Longobard “city of withces”), Caserta (a magnificent seven hundred residence) and Avellino, midpoint of Irpinia.
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