Galleria Umberto I

area, Naples, Italy

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The Galleria Umberto I is a late 19th-century glass-covered arcade in Naples, Italy. Located across from the San Carlo opera house, it serves as an ornate meeting place. The cruciform structure was built as part of a slum clearance and redevelopment project following a cholera epidemic in 1884. The Galleria Umberto I was familiar ground for Allied servicemen during the closing stages of World War II.1

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…19th-century arcades of the cruciform Galleria Umberto I serve, under their glass cupola, as an ornate meeting place. The arcades were familiar ground to Allied servicemen in the closing phase of World War II, a dramatic period recalled in such writings as John Horne Burns’s The Gallery (1947), Norman Lewis’s…
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…19th-century arcades of the cruciform Galleria Umberto I serve, under their glass cupola, as an ornate meeting place. The arcades were familiar ground to Allied servicemen in the closing phase of World War II, a dramatic period recalled in such writings as John Horne Burns’s The Gallery (1947), Norman Lewis’s…
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