Roads Cupe For those fortunate enough to possess a card or just observe the Neapolitan old one, can not help but notice the disparity between the present and the past. The reversal space between town and country is so obvious from wanting to go back in time. Unfortunately this is not feasible, so we can try to re-assess those areas that were once more livable. Beginning to know them better.
Cupa Cascetta is the case in the territory of San Giorgio a Cremano Aiello and Cupa Monaco on the border between San Sebastiano al Vesuvio, San Giorgio and Herculaneum.
Cupa Cascetta born from the square created by the confluence of Via Figliola, in its two branches (St. George and St. Sebastian), the old Via Figliola (parallel to the current in the territory of St Sebastian) and Via Astronaut (San Sebastian). This is a dying way that has lost its logical flow downstream due to the obstruction of waste and vegetation. And to say that, admiring the beautiful map of Noja, 1775, the same, continuing east to what is now called Alveo Buono (S. Sebastiano), was the "way to San Sebastian." It was certainly not the only access road to the village, further south there was in fact the "road leading to the Mountain", currently named after Palmiro Togliatti and already Via Nuova San Sebastian. But returning to Cascetta Cupa, wanting to imagine a re-evaluation, this would be very helpful to all those who live nearby, as an alternative to a Via Figliola too congested traffic in peak hours. Maybe even a one-way, given the small light that crosses it. But no, it is the haunt of drug addicts and that there are good people to upload their own shame and to the detriment of those few who live there.
gloomier than ever, the fate of Monaco Aiello at its birth in Via Figliola (on St. George) is closed by a gate. In fact this ancient road, too upright to the Volcano, now has the function of complain and was restored several times by ENEL is that by the Civil Engineers to receive and channel the rushing waters that fall away from the astronauts and the surrounding countryside. Its upper hand (see Astronaut, separates it from Via Masseria Monaco Aiello, a former continuation of the same), having grazed the central ENEL (San Sebastian) is continuing, including various types of waste, to the greenhouses ( St. George), where you can see what remains of basalt, now almost entirely replaced by an obscene poured concrete. As in the past the road turn right to find a complex that was once the only building in an area known with the name of St. Catherine of Siena, this building now adapted to the canons of the new building, it appears still some ruins, surrounded by thick vegetation, a vestige of days gone by.
My childhood memories take me back in time, when I was in that house to buy wine for my grandfather. I remember when a good-natured m'accoglieva toothless old woman who entrusted me to her husband, old man, too high to bear the burden of work and years, always bent, a man set, accompanying me to the cellar.
And this was the real surprise was passed in a first cellarer, slightly below ground level, but then, through a narrow flight of steps carved into the lava descended down to the cellar itself, very wet but pleasantly cool in summer. It was illuminated by a sixty-watt bulb hanging from a white ribbon that was vibrating the shadows as we passed. Slow climb to the light was nice and fancy with those lingering shadows but the old man urged me to hurry. I wonder if there is still the cellar.
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