Another appointment not to be missed with Alberto Angela and its interesting transmission Wonders, the Peninsula of treasures will take place on Tuesday January 18 2022 at 21:20 on Rai 1.
The science communicator, a great lover of the city of Napoli, in this fourth and final episode, after having told about the islands and Bacoli with the Mirabilis Pool, will focus on the wonderful National Railway Museum of Pietrarsa.
Not only that, because the popularizer will also show us the Villas of Golden Mile, the famous stretch of road originally built between Herculaneum and Torre del Greco, extended to Portici and San Giorgio a Cremano, where the Vesuvian villas of the eighteenth century.
The National Railway Museum of Pietrarsa on Rai 1
The National Railway Museum of Pietrarsa is located between the districts of San Giovanni a Teduccio, Portici and San Giorgio a Cremano.
In the space where the structure currently stands there was the royal Bourbon factory of Pietrarsa, or a structure commissioned by Ferdinand II of Bourbon in 1840 as a steel industry which, however, from 1845 assumed the role of a steam locomotive factory.
To date, the Museum is owned by the FS Italiane Foundation, Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane and the seven pavilions of which it is made up include steam locomotives, three-phase electric locomotives, direct current locomotives and many others, as well as the locomotive that on 3 October of 1839 pulled the train of the Naples-Portici section, the Bayard.
If you want to know all the curiosities and the history of this fascinating museum, then you shouldn't miss the episode dedicated to it.
Villa Campolieto in Herculaneum in the Golden Mile
In the episode of Tuesday we will also visit the Villa Campolieto which rises in Herculaneum, the most famous and among the most beautiful of the stretch of the Golden Mile. It was built by Luigi Vanvitelli for Prince Luzio di Sangro.
At the beginning of the eighteenth century a place was also discovered that from then on would change the history of archeology, namely the ancient Roman theater of Herculaneum. For centuries it was buried under the ashes of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD and when it came back to light it was an extraordinary discovery.
Angela will take us to discover this incredible place, but also in the rest of the Roman city of Herculaneum.
To accompany him there will be two exceptional guides:
- Lello Arena who will tell anecdotes about Villa Campolieto;
- Remo Girone who will play the architect Luigi Vanvitelli.
