Naples is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022. Its province-level municipality is the third-most populous metropolitan city in Italy with a population of 3,115,320 residents, and its metropolitan area stretches beyond the boundaries of the city wall for approximately 30 kilometres.
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Image: Napoli vista dall'alto. 0009 (cropped)
Image: Piazza Plebiscito panoramio
Image: Castelnuovo (Maschio Angioino), Naples
Neapolitan is a Romance language of the Italo-Romance group spoken in Naples and most of continental Southern Italy. It is named after the Kingdom of Naples, which once covered most of the area, since the city of Naples was its capital. On 14 October 2008, a law by the Region of Campania stated that Neapolitan was to be protected.
1895 song in Neapolitan.
Giambattista Basile (1566–1632), author of a collection of fairy tales in Neapolitan that includes the earliest known versions of Rapunzel and Cinderella
Neapolitan text at the Scampìa Carnival; note the definite article 'o.
Viola Carofalo wearing a T-shirt with Neapolitan je so’ pazzo ("I am crazy.")
