TIME HAS STOPPED IN NAPLES

If you wander through the alleys and neighborhoods of Naples, you will feel as if time had stopped . Its smells, its colors, the voices that can be heard in the distance seem to have come out of a neorealist film, arrived intact to us. Curzio Malaparte said that Naples “is the most mysterious city in Europe, it is the only city in the ancient world that has not perished like Ilius, like Nineveh, like Babylon. It is the only city in the world that has not sunk in the terrible shipwreck of ancient civilization. Naples is a Pompeii that has never been buried. It is not a city: it is a world. The ancient world, pre-Christian, remained intact at (on?) the surface of the modern world”. The Neapolitan city, with its thousand-year-old civilization, seems almost trapped in a time-space bubble. But what if Naples was, in reality, a city out of time? Not backward, not forward, in the human perception of a time that appears linear, but beyond time, placed in a space-time fold that escapes the theories with which man has tried to explain this still unknown phenomenon that we call “Time”. I go further: what if Naples was, in reality, the “house of Time”, in which the same slows down to cancel itself, imperishable, eternal and incorruptible scenario of countless human events? According to the ancient Greeks, the Gods lived on Olympus but not Kronos who, as far as we know, could live in one of the many tufa quarries, present in the city of Parthenope since ancient times…