Katja Brandt
The city before the postcard cropped it
Based in Spaccanapoli, Naples.
She walks the length of Spaccanapoli and the quieter cloisters most guidebooks skip, then pairs each sight with the practical detail that gets you in without the crowd. Her day-trip pieces reach out to the Campi Flegrei craters and the Herculaneum ruins that Pompeii tends to overshadow.
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