Galleria Umberto I

area, Naples, Italy

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    In Naples: The Castel Nuovo

    …19th-century arcades of the cruciform Galleria Umberto I serve, under their glass cupola, as an ornate meeting place. The arcades were familiar ground to Allied servicemen in the closing phase of World War II, a dramatic period recalled in such writings as John Horne Burns’s The Gallery (1947), Norman Lewis’s…

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