Skip to main content

Napoli Part 3




We were in Napoli the first Sat in May so we were there for the Feast of San Gennaro! I had never heard of this before I was looking at things to do while we were there, but I was pretty excited once I found out. Every year on the Saturday before the first Sunday in May (and also two other times a year - the really big festival is Sept 19th) the saints blood liquifies. Or it is supposed to. It is good fortune for Napoli if it does. Then the blood is on display for 8 days before it goes back in the vault (or wherever they keep it). I couldn't find much online about when the festivities would be since it was not the big celebration so we headed over to the Duomo early in the morning to check it out. Inside they had all of their silver saint statues lined up ready to go for later in the afternoon.


Since we hd some time we wandered around and explored some more. It was much busier since it was Saturday.


Any guesses what this building is?



A church of course! This is the inside of the weird, prison like building.

 
Some street art


We showed up early to the Duomo since we didn't know how busy it would be. I have a ton of photos of the fun, so I will only post a few. If you want to see the all I believe you can click on the above photo and be taken to the album.



When it was time each of the statues came out one by one and the priest said a few words about each of them. Well I am assuming he was talking about them since it was all in Italian and I do not know Italian. It was pretty funny watching them go down the stairs and line up for the procession as you couldn't really see the people carrying them because of the crowd so it was like they were floating walking.


See there wasn't a crazy amount of people, but it was fun







And the blood had liquified! Yey!


So let the procession begin








Action shot from Raymond











Raymond and I both liked this one best



The blood is in the dark round part of the metal thing in front in this photo. 
 


Following the procession - we didn't really follow the whole thing. We were headed back towards our place after all the fun and it was going the same way until they turned down a different road.


But then we caught up with them again! They were heading towards us on a road we needed to go down. Fun!




They had acquired a band at some point


It was a lot of fun. I am glad we were there for it, though the one in Sept is supposed to be really like a party - vendors on the streets, decorations, etc. Still I enjoyed it.


Raymond's favorite corner - we walked by here almost every day.


More wandering after the festivities


Crazy trees that were thorny


I'll stop here for now since next up is our adventures on Mt Vesuvius!

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Campervan Adventures in Bavaria: Eibsee & Bremsee & Fungi

The next day we woke up and it was quite cloudy, but we still headed off to hike around Eibsee. 

Colmar, France Part 2 - All the museums!

So when we were wandering around Colmar and spying on all the things we saw a sign that we happened to be in Colmar on a free night at the museum! So most of the museums in town were free from 7pm-11pm/midnight (depending on the museum). So we of course had to go check them out! There were only four in town so we were able to go to all of them, though by the end we were so tired and our feet were so sore from a long day of exploring and long night of museums.  First up was the Museum Bartholdi, but I didn't take any photos in there (I wasn't sure I was allowed and it was super busy, so many people!). It was super tiny, but interesting. There were a lot of models of ideas he had for different monuments and then what he actually ended up using. The one room was just ideas and designs for the Statue of Liberty which was cool. There wasn't a lot there, but what there was I enjoyed.  Then it was over to the Natural History and Ethnology Museum Cool bugs

San Francisco Part 1

  Oh San Francisco. What a wonderful time I had there. It was absolutely beautiful the entire time. Sunny, warm, gorgeous. Plus getting to spend a few days with Jacalen and Patricia = So much fun! We definitely need to do more girls trips! This will be a mostly picture post   I arrived late afternoon and the bus dropped me off near Fishermans Wharf and I walked over to where we were staying. Oh, it was gorgeous outside, but with my bags and such I was a bit warm. Not expecting that in February! Patricia arrived a bit after I did and we had the evening to ourselves to do whatever we wanted! It was so nice out and we were staying in the Marina District so it was just a short walk down to the water. Beautiful!   After wandering along the waterfront for a bit it was time for some dinner! We happened to find the Plant Cafe and I got a plant burger with fries and a salad. Really tasty! Afterwards we went to get a drink and noticed the bar had trivia on Tue