Mediterranean winter resorts : a complete and practical handbook to the principal health and pleasure resorts on the shores of the Mediterranean, with special articles on the principal invalid stations by resident English physicians / by Eustace A. Reynolds-Ball.

  • Reynolds-Ball, Eustace A. (Eustace Alfred), 1858-1928
Date:
1904
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Credit: Mediterranean winter resorts : a complete and practical handbook to the principal health and pleasure resorts on the shores of the Mediterranean, with special articles on the principal invalid stations by resident English physicians / by Eustace A. Reynolds-Ball. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    English Tca-roonis.—Via Villoria. Tolmccu.—Spaccio Norma/e, 206, Via Roma; 250, Sir. di Chiaja. Those are the Government estaljlishmenls, and Havana cigars can be obtained here from 25 c. Wills' English tobacco can also be ])rociired at the Spaccio Normale. Trunks, Portmanteaux, etc.—Baruch, 280, Via Roma. Umbrellas.—Gilardini, 335, Via Roma. Watchmakers.—Eberhard, I, Galleria Umberto I. ; Wyss, 69, Str. Brigida. Wine Merchant.—Scala, 136, Strada di Chiaja. At nearly all these shops English and French are understood, if not spoken as well. Tourist Agencies.—Cook & Son, Piazza del Martiri; Inter- national Sleeping Car Agency, 85, Corso Re d'ltalia Theatres.—hX. Naples there are two opera houses (San Carlo, near the Royal Palace, and Bellini, Strada Bellini) and several theatres. The best are Nuovo, Strada Teatro Nuovo, Mercadante (formerly Fondo), and Sannazzaro, Strada Chiaja. At these Opera BoufFes and Farces are usually given. At the other theatres, of which the Mercadante and Politeama are the most flourishing, the plays are in the Neapolitan dialect. The old Teatro Fondo has been rebuilt by Sonsogno, the music pub- lisher, and is run as an Opera House, in opposition to S. Carlo, with very moderate prices. Guide Books, Books of Reference, etc.—There is an excellent little English handbook to Naples and its environs published by Messrs. Detken & Rocholl, price 2s. There is also a guide-book in French published in the town; the price is l fr. 50 c. (Eng. trans., 2 fr.), and it is provided with a good map. Naples is also dealt with at great length in the following guide-books : Baedeker's South Italy (1903, 6^.) ; Murray's South Italy ' (1892, 6^.); Joanne's Italic (1901, 10 fr.) ; Cook's South Italy (4J.). Charmingly written descriptions of Naples will be found in W. D. Howells' Italian Journeys, in A. J. C. Hare's Cities of South Italy and Sicily, and in the late J. A. Symonds' Italian Sketches. The following works might also be consulted with advantage: South Italian Volcanoes, by Dr. Johnston-Lavis; Letters from a Mourning City, by