Napoli

The Municipality of Naples is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Italian Heritage Associations.

The metropolitan city is also part of Healthy Cities, Cities of Art and Culture, City of Bio, City of Ceramics and City of Cherries, of the Covenant of Mayors Movement and Networks Strategic Cities Network and Network of Solidarity Municipalities.

Seat of Frederick II, the oldest state university in Europe, it also hosts the Orientale, the oldest university of sinological and oriental studies on the continent and the Nunziatella, one of the oldest military academies in the world, elected historical and cultural heritage of the Mediterranean countries by the Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly.

Founded by the Cumans in the eighth century BC, it was among the most important cities of Magna Graecia and played a notable commercial, cultural and religious role towards the surrounding Italic populations.

After the collapse of the Roman Empire, in the 8th century the city formed an autonomous duchy independent of the Byzantine Empire; later, from the thirteenth century and for about six hundred years, it was the capital of the Kingdom of Naples; with the Restoration it became the capital of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies under the Bourbons until the unification of Italy.

Place of origin of the Neapolitan language, it has exercised and exercises a strong role in numerous fields of knowledge, culture and collective imagination at national and international level.

Center of the naturalistic philosophy of the renaissance and enlightenment center of European level, it has long been a global reference point for classical music and opera through the Neapolitan musical school, giving birth, among other things, to the comic opera.