Naples is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Bronze Age Greek settlements were established in the Naples area in the second millennium BC. A larger colony, developed on the Island of Megaride around the Ninth Century BC, at the end of the Greek Dark Ages.
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Naples is one of the oldest cities in Europe and with the largest historical city centre. Here you can find all the traces of its cultural influences, crossing and telling 27 century oh history.
Naples was among the foremost cities of Magna Graecia, playing a key role in the transmission of Greek culture to Roman society. It eventually became a major cultural centre in the Roman Republic, civitas foederata.
Naples is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022.