To kick off the fall season, our Saturday Strolls return us to Napoli’s streets. This week we’re off to explore the characteristic alleys of Centro Storico - Naples Historic Center.

The Neapolitan language has a rich literary, poetic, and musical history, and yet it has no official status within Italy, is not taught in schools, and is still, even after 150 years of Italian unification, considered the language of the ignorant.

This Saturday Stroll has us cruising the Posillipo Coast in Naples, Italy.

This Saturday Stroll has us cruising the Posillipo Coast in Naples, Italy.

This Saturday Stroll has us cruising the Posillipo coast in Naples, Italy.

Then there is Ischia. The largest of the Campanian islands, it is the perfect middle ground between touristy Sorrento, upscale Capri and tiny Procida.

As soon as it gets this hot, all strolls are off and you either run and duck for cover or join the rest of the Neapolitans in a four month long celebration of the sun.

There are no “you have to see” monuments this way, with perhaps the exception of the forever photographed Palazzo Donn’Anna. There is, however, an endless and priceless panoramic view of the Gulf of Naples, the city, Vesuvio and Capri.