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Italy - a place of longing for Germans: The sea, the sun, the wine and ‘dolce far niente’, the much-praised ease of Italian life, have been luring travellers to ‘the land where the lemons bloom’ for centuries. Among them are artists of all colours: poets, painters and composers.
When they talk about the ‘Mezzogiorno’, they probably have the ‘Canzone Napoletana’ in their ears or think of the ‘Fishermen of Capri’ and Pizza Margherita. In Italy itself, however, it is always associated with the poor south, with its problems and backwardness. ‘It rains on those who are already wet’, as they say in this region.
Vesuvius, the ‘majestic criminal’, as Gerhart Hauptmann called it, also has an almost magical attraction and has already triggered a veritable mountain tourism in history. The excavations in Pompeii have made the volcano even more fascinating since the 18th century. The path to the crater leads over bizarre lava fields. Accounts of the ascent can be found in travelogues by Goethe, Fanny Mendelssohn, Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. The fourteen-year-old Mozart wrote in amazement to his sister from Naples: ‘Cara sorella mia, heunt raucht der Vesuvius, poz bliz und ka nent aini.’ Walter Benjamin hoped in vain for an eruption, and Nietzsche even demanded, with the volcano in mind: ‘Build your cities on Vesuvius!’
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Im Sportzentrum 8
57610 Altenkirchen