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Blue Guide Southern Italy
June 12, 2008 · 2 Comments
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Reader // Jun 12th 2008 at 10:38am
I used “Blue Guide Southern Italy” on a trip to the Amalfi coast from which I have just returned. I have one correction and one suggestion.
The correction has to do with directions to get to the museum at Capodimonte in Naples. On p. 97 you give directions to the museum as follows: “Regular bus services run from the city centre to the museum: no. 24 from Piazza Vittoria via Piazza Dante stops at the Porta Grande.” It seems that there is no longer a bus no. 24. Rather you must take bus R4 from the Museo Archeologico nazionale; there are bus stops along the via Santa Teresa degli Scalzi.
My suggestion is to visit and then, if you agree, to list as a particularly fine and welcoming restaurant Rau: Emotional Food, Vico Satriano, 8c 80121 Napoli +39 081 245 50 57
Peter McCormack // Jul 31st 2008 at 10:50am
I have just returned from a holiday to southern Italy, in the Salerno region, and I used the 8th Edition (1996) Blue Guide to Southern Italy. Please excuse me if my comments have been superseded by later editions.
To me it is particularly commendable that the Blue Guides make reference to Commonwealth War Cemeteries, which I try to make a point of visiting where possible. Unfortunately, I found the information in the Guide at pages 218 and 181 about the cemeteries at Caserta and Salerno respectively to be somewhat misleading, although I did eventually find the cemeteries.
Caserta
The Guide states that the cemetery is “immediately east of the civil cemetery”. This is misleading. The cemetery is actually surrounded on three sides by the civil cemetery. Its entrance is about 100 metres east of the large entrance to the civil cemetery, which is at the southwest corner of the civil cemetery. In other words, the entrance to the military cemetery is about halfway along the sourthern boundary of the civil cemetery. The war cemetery is surrounded by an opaque wall, and is easily missed. To state that it is east of the civil cemetery suggests that it is part of a different “block”, and this can lead to confusion and “going round in circles”! Also, an unfortunate but doubtless necessary innovation is that the Commonwealth Cemetery is now kept locked at all times. To gain admission, one needs to know the four digit code to unlock the gate, which can be obtained by phone from the Rome office of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The local civic staff were not “up to speed” on this, although they gave me the relevant Rome phone number. I understand from the Rome office that the war cemeteries at Rome and Taranto are also now locked, and the same 4 digit code applies. Incidentally, the Caserta War Cemetery is not sign-posted, and without a map of Caserta one would be toiling to find it. Essentially it is about 1to 2 miles northeast of the Royal Palace of Caserta.
Salerno
The Guide states that “Montecorvino, 10km further east” is the site of the “Salerno British Military Cemetery”. This is seriously misleading. It may well be situated in the territory of the commune of Montecorvino - there are two villages in the nearby hills which include Montecorvino in their titles - but the cemetery is nowhere near either Montecorvino. Rather, it lies on the north side of the State Road 18 between Pontecagnano (to the west of the cemetery) and Battipaglia (to the east). It is obvious to anyone driving past. Mention in the guide of Montecorvino sent me off on a wild goose chase in the hills! Also, correctly speaking, it is a Commonwealthrather than simply a British cemetery. - there are for example quite a number of Canadian graves.
I hope these comments are of some assistance, and apologise again if they are inapplicable to more up to date editions.
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