We are not in a museum, we are in history, proudly in our history.
There is always a journey and even if it is not so long it is certainly one of the most fascinating.
Welcome to Portici (NA) at the National Railway Museum.
Clean, simple, interactive, interesting ... the apology of the train, of the stories that have intertwined over time, with technological discoveries, with art, design, families, the eyes of passengers amazed by the new era of transport was arriving.
1839, the first Naples - Portici route, the Bourbon family and their guests, on the first carriages (obviously called in the same way as what was the most frequent means of transport, the carriage) ... and although the shape was obviously different, the external decoration instead he had wanted to take up the idea.
So we start from here, in this huge pavilion with a huge and personally beautiful yellow ocher resin in the center, and on the back the reproduction of the first locomotive with Bourbon carriages.
You have sides in chronological order the various steam locomotives that have followed one another in the various decades up to the more modern twentieth-century and electric ones.
The visit is very pleasant, the staff prepared, the air is that of the sea, Naples in the background ... a stop in the "dehors", with well-kept gardens and a bar-restaurant in the center open until late.
The visit of the other pavilions is equally interesting, instruments, machinery, uniforms, and the most recent carriages between monarchy and republic, decorated and welcoming like aristocratic salons. It is truly a journey through our history, when the decorations of the maritime republics replace the Savoy coats of arms and the royal carriage is transformed into the presidential one.
The smell of the velvet on the seats, the memory of the postal convoys, the locomotives with the old FS symbols with wings. So I'm a child again, I get excited, my little memory and these big giants all motionless around me and part of us.