We'd remembered the
Naples Archaeological Museum was a marvel and so it
still is. The Farnese family collection of statuary
most famously the grisly "Toro Farnese", carved from a single marble block and originally the centrepiece of the baths
and many of the mosaics
"rescued" from Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae
and from the tiny - a 2" inch tall statue of the god, Serapis, for whom Pozzuoli's market place is named,
to the enormous - an Atlas, holding the world
The morning's
culture done, we picnicked in Piazza Dante
and (after a fruitless
pitstop when it transpired that the Italian BBC
wasn't showing the England v Wales football!),
wandered the old, narrow streets, stopping for a
coffee/prosecco break
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