ITALIA	ITALY
regione: Campania	Sardinia
città metropolitana: Napoli	metropolitan city: Naples

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Napoli (in English: Naples) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan with a population of about 909,000 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022. Its province-level municipality is the third-most populous metropolitan city in Italy with a population of some 3,115,300 residents, and its metropolitan area stretches beyond the boundaries of the city wall for approximately 30 kilometres.

Founded by Greeks in the 1st millennium BC, Naples is one of the oldest continuously inhabited urban areas in the world. In the 8th century BC, a colony known as Parthenope (Ancient Greek: Παρθένοπη) was established on the Pizzofalcone hill. In the 6th century BC, it was refounded as Neapolis. The city was an important part of Magna Graecia, played a major role in the merging of Greek and Roman society, and was a significant cultural centre under the Romans. Naples served as the capital of the Duchy of Naples (661–1139), subsequently as the capital of the Kingdom of Naples (1282–1816), and finally as the capital of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies — until the unification of Italy in 1861. Naples is also considered a capital of the Baroque. It was also an important centre of humanism and Enlightenment. The city has long been a global point of reference for classical music and opera through the Neapolitan School. Between 1925 and 1936, Naples was expanded and upgraded by the Fascist regime. During the later years of World War II, it sustained severe damage from Allied bombing as they invaded the peninsula. The city underwent extensive reconstruction work after the war. Naples' historic city centre is the largest in Europe and has been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site (see list of other UNESCO Heritage sites of which there are souvenir glasses in this collection). A wide range of culturally and historically significant sites are nearby, including the Palace of Caserta and the Roman ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Glass no. 4647 [left] shows a view from Posillipo, on a rocky peninsula about 6 km long surrounded by cliffs with a few small coves with breakwaters at the western end of the Bay of Naples, today an affluent residential quarter of Naples. From the 1st century BC the Bay of Naples witnessed the rise of villas constructed by elite Romans along the most panoramic points of the coast, who had chosen the area as a favourite vacation spot. The remains of some of these, around the imperial pleasure villa of the Roman emperors, as well as the Tunnel of Sejanus can be seen today in the Parco archeologico del Pausilypon, or Pausilypon Archaeological Park, and elsewhere.

Glass no. 4648 [right] is decorated by a depiction of an eruption of Mount Vesuvius, most probably either the one that occured in 1906 or that of 1929.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naples; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posillipo; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Vesuvius]