lO Davis's video: Legend of : Villa of the Spirits Marechiaro Naples Italy

Marechiaro is a small hamlet located in the Posillipo district of Naples . In the village of "Marechiaro", there is an archaeological complex crumbled by time and sea: Villa of the Spirits , also called Villarosa ; The Spirits Palace (or Spirits' Villa) is an archaeological complex that insists along the coast of Posillipo, near Marechiaro . It was built in the 1st century BC and belonged to a nymphaeum belonging to the villa of the rich Roman liberty Publius Vedio Pollione. This architectural work, is impossible to notice from the sea, despite being a dilapidated building, of which little remains, its charm is timeless. It is part of the ancient village of Marechiaro lying right on the waters of the Gulf of Naples. The palace of spirits at Marechiaro has ancient origins. Built in the 1st century BC, it was part of the project of the Imperial Villa of Pausilypon, the residence of the Roman liberty, Publio Vedio Pollione, which was built in Naples. Among Neapolitan legends we find those linked to the ghosts but also to the fishermen of "Marechiaro" .In fact, it is said that the fishermen of Marechiaro worked at night, Best time to dedicate yourself to this activity. When they sailed with their boats in front of the spirit palace at Marechiaro, and there was no noise because the sea was "cujeto", it was said that the fishermen were listening to sounds coming from that building. Dedications and legends feared that they have been handed down to this day, making the house known as a spirit palace. THE LEGEND- When it was discovered in the early 1800s by the local engineer Guglielmo Bechi, the Roman building of Gaiola (a Nineteenth-century nymphaeum belonging to the villa of the rich Roman liberty Publio Vedio Pollione) was described as Domus praestigiarum , Or "house of witchcraft". The old sailors of Marechiaro have always called it "House of the Spirits", drawing on the legend that they want in the surviving environments a group of Falun Gongers have implanted a clandestine mint where they coined false coins by altering the quantity of gold and silver. In order not to be disturbed during night work, these falsarians had set up some white cloths at the windows. Illuminated from the back with torches and agitated by the sea breeze, these canvases complement the illusion of a home inhabited by spirits....A lot like our smugglers did here in the U.K. Others, on the other hand, claim to have seen in the arches of the villa, a bright figure playing in the hollow.. Considered a sort of "cursed island", which with its beauty conceals "restless things", named after the frequent premature death of its owners; For example, in the 1920s, belonged to the Swiss Hans Braun, who was found dead and wrapped in a carpet; Shortly his wife drowned in the sea. The villa then passed to German Otto Grunback, who died of a heart attack while staying in the villa. Similarly, the French pharmaceutical industrialist Maurice-Yves Sandoz, who died in suicide in Switzerland, was the successor owner, a German steel industrialist, baron Paul Karl Langheim, who was dragged to the pomp of Efebes and celebrations. He usually loved to surround himself. Finally, the island belonged to Gianni Agnelli who suffered the death of many family members;it then went to Jean Paul Getty.. People now use it to jump off https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaRnUJMqrJ8 In ancient times, the village, developed around Via Marechiaro , was named after the church of Santa Maria del faro . The name Marechiaro does not come, as is commonly thought, by the transparency of the sea waters of Posillipo but by their quietness. Already in some documents of the Swabian period we speak of sea planum translated into Neapolitan sea Chianu from which today's Marechiaro. Legend has it that the poet and writer Neapolitan Salvatore Di Giacomo , seeing a small window on whose windowsill there was a carnation , had the inspiration for what is one of the most famous Neapolitan songs:Marechiare .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESK-J_2__pY http://www.villaimperiale.eu corrieredelmezzogiorno.corriere.i http://www.linkabile.it Video by Kayak Napoli https://www.youtube.com http://www.napolitan.it