Guide to Naples Hotels and Attractions

Naples is where the pizza was invented, and is the third largest city in Italy with a population of 1.2 million citizens. Naples is rich in Italian customs and culture and you will find many with a violin playing popular Italian music. Naples also has one of the most amazing museums in Europe it is the Museo Archeologico Nazionale it has various types of artefacts from nearby Pompeii, in the early times Pompeii was bombarded by a volcano which covered the whole city in lava. After hundreds of years the area was excavated with many things still in tact. Naples is a major seaport and is the central focal point of commerce, producing textiles, fine glassware and great wines. Here are some quick facts about Naples:

King Richard's, debuting in 1996, started with the idea of providing area residents and visitors with a place for go-cart, bumper boat and batting cage fun. Now family-oriented King Richard's has the area's only permanent roller coaster, plus a water play area called Merlin's Moat, and a dozen more rides for all ages. 6780 North Airport Road. (239) 598-2042

Amid a stand of pine trees lies Naples' Mecca for teddy bears, from one-inch tall to bigger than life, in mediums from fabric to crystal, wood, marble, and bronze. This purpose-built museum shelters some 5,000 teddy bears with 45 displays including a teddy bear wedding. Frances Pew Hayes, museum founder, has seven children, 19 grandchildren, and at last count, six great grandkids. The family draws names for Yule gift giving, and in 1984, a grandson drawing her name asked what she wanted. Mrs. Hayes replied she was running out of rubber bands and paperclips, and he could give her those. When the boy pressed further, she asked for a teddy bear. From this one snugly M&M bear presented by a five-year-old to his grandmother, a collection was born, and Mrs. Hayes became a true arctophile, or teddy bear collector. Soon came bearaphernilia and notions of a museum. In December, 1990 "Frannie" donated 1,500 bears, and doors opened for this not-for-profit public corporation now drawing 50,000-plus visitors per year. The Li-Beary has more than 800 teddy bear books, dating to when the Washington Post published "Drawing the Line," a cartoon depicting President Theodore Roosevelt declining to shoot a defenceless bear tied to a tree. A Russian immigrant couple saw the cartoon and gained permission from T.R. to call their hand-made bears Teddy's Bears. Profits from their sales evolved into the Ideal Toy Co., and the rest is teddy bear history.
2511 Pine Ridge Road, Naples. (239) 598-2711

This incredible volcano was created over 4000 years ago, and still exhibits exciting volcanic steam. If you look in the crater you will notice an interesting phenomenon such as streams of sulphurous steam leaking out.