Seven Wonders: Naples | From Virgil to San Gennaro (Episode 1)

Seven Wonders, is a Sky Original production created by Ballandi Arts for Sky Arte, that tells the story of the discovery of the great symbols of Italy's artistic heritage. Audio in Italian with English subtitles.

The series, in seven episodes, is a journey through the centuries in the most extraordinary places of the Neapolitan city. A story that highlights the character of the city made of contrasts: of the sea of ​​the Gulf and the fire of Vesuvius, of incredible churches and submerged pagan cults, of ecstatic beauty and unbridled vitality. And it is precisely from the meeting of all the souls that inhabit it that Naples comes to life to become that crossroads of art, nature and people that has no equal in the world.

The episodes are dedicated to the archaeological and historical beauties of the city: from Capodimonte to the Spanish Quarters, from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance without neglecting a natural landscape made unique in the world by the coexistence between the sea and the firepower of Vesuvius.

Guiding voice of this itinerary that unfolds over the centuries and tells of the sea, buildings and anecdotes, a narrator who is at home in Naples: the actor and director Mimmo Borrelli.

Episode 1: A journey into a pagan and Christian Naples in which the poet Virgil, magician and protector of the city, passes the baton to San Gennaro, the saint to whom one speaks “from man to man” as Totò said. Among castles, legends, magnificent churches and treasures, the need for protection of the Neapolitans is investigated, which produces works of art of incomparable beauty.

Episode 2: https://rumble.com/v5ww6zz-seven-wonders-naples-castel-nuovo-medieval-naples-episode-2.html