The city of Naples consists myths, legends and miracles intertwined with art of everyday survival in the urban chaos and disorder. The Neapolitans love sensationalism, persistently believe in saints, souls of the deceased and in the miraculous blood liquefaction of their city protector Saint Simon (San Gennaro). We also can’t imagine Naples without the legend of "Neapolitan golden feet" - former football superstar Diego Armando Maradona, who some Neapolitans praise as a saint.

The Naples today has managed to overcome the cramps of the earthquake restoration. The ongoing renaissance is changing the amphitheatre under the Vesuvius into a city of culture, tourism and a city of underground railway with stations, which are replacing the modern art gallery that Naples has never had. Naples embodies constant conflicts of extremes without which the city would loose its identity.
   

Unemployment, immigrants, children growing up in the streets and drug business are a repeating prayer.Miraculous coincidence is that the immigrants, prostitutes and drug addicts in Naples are not persecuted. Rights of the immigrants are widely supported various institutions for promoting their culture are established and consulting places with lawyers offering free legal help are opened. Physicians-volunteers are offering free medical help and canteens with warm meal are organised. Even before Neapolitans started to voluntary care for the immigrants the day-care centres for children and adolescents were established throughout city quarters.

Neapolitans say, that Naples is not able to erase its stamp of corruption and criminal which are omnipresent, whether on the flower market or at the biggest construction projects.