Here comes the first guided tour of the streets and places of Naples dedicated to Elena Ferrante's famous novel "Amica Geniale".
After the great success of the now famous novel "The Genius Friend" by Elena Ferrante, from which it was also a TV series premiered at the Venice Film Festival, arrives the first tour through the streets and places of Naples which have been the setting for the life of the two protagonists of the world bestseller.
"Brilliant fragments - Tour between the pages of Naples" is the title of an interesting format created by the cultural association NarteA that will lead visitors on the trail of Lila and Lenù, traveling and discovering the network of alleys of a city that reflects the tangle of contrasting feelings of the emotional journey and growth of the two protagonists of the novel.
During the RoadBook to visitors Earphones and a small booklet with extracts from the book will be provided, maps and historical photos of the city that will allow you to live a true immersive experience in the plot of the novel and admire, simultaneously, the places of the city involved. The route will also be directed by a guide that will introduce the history of the monuments and the historical-artistic beauties of Naples.
Discovering the places in Naples from Elena Ferrante's “The Genial Friend”
The path created by NarteA is an opportunity to explore neighborhoods, districts, monuments and places of the city of Naples, to be observed and rediscovered with the eyes of the protagonists of the novel.
The ideal starting point is the "District of degradation", never mentioned in the book but where the lives of the two little girls meet and mingle, then become young girls and finally women, in a confusion of closeness and distance, rooting and uprooting, high and low. Instead, the real starting point will be Montesanto, where presumably the protagonists arrive with the metro, when for the first time they leave the neighborhood with their friends. We will continue through the Pignasecca, via Toledo e via Chiaia, the street of the rich and luxurious shops, up to the height of Chiaia bridge, which connects the area of San Carlo alle Mortelle with the hill of Pizzofalcone.
The subsequent stages are Cellammare palace e piazza dei Martiri, where in the story is the large shoe store of Solara. The path ends on via Caracciolo, the splendid road overlooking the sea.
