Meeting with the driver and the guide in hotel.
The historical centre of Naples itself is a tangible record of the ancient Greek settlement with its streets arranged on a grid pattern. More evidence of the civilising influence of the Hellenistic culture on the local peoples in the Bay of Naples and throughout Magna Graecia can be seen in the wealth of objects representing the material and artistic output of the Greeks which are conserved and on display in the National Museum.
Important items from the epigraph collection attest the introduction of the alphabet in the West and the complex relations between the local peoples, Italic and Etruscan, and the cities colonised by Greeks crossing from the Peleponnese and Sicily. Other inscriptions show that in the Graeco-Roman Neapolis a range of social and political institutions and religious and cultural customs going back to the city's Greek origins continued in use.
The material from the most recent excavations of Pithecusae and the princely tombs from the necropolises of Cumae, on display in the new topographical section, illustrate the first settlements based on trading, the formal foundation of the first colonies and territorial outposts in the Cumanus sinus, including Dicearchia and Partenope, by the Euboeans.
Lastly, precious relics such as vases or frescoes belonging to the Museum's historical collections, coming from sites all over Magna Graecia, point to cultural links - which are no less intense and dynamic for being ideal - with the cultural and philosophical achievements of the mother country, Ancient Greece itself.
Return to hotel.
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