View to Naples from the terrace of the Capodimonte Palace

Vesuvius is the typical background of all sights in Naples

Orange and tangerine trees can be seen everywhere in the streets of Naples.

The Napolitan houses usually have spacious terraces on their roofs with lots of plants.

The most important person in the project - Mrs. Assunta Maione, the coordinator of the project in VII Instituto Technico Industriale(the second one from left to right)

And Ms Luisa Maro, from ISTITUTO SUPERIORE POLISPECIALISTICO STATALE DI CASORIA

On the second day of our visit, our hosts took us to the famous palace di Capodimonte

The Palace houses the National Picture Callery whose central feature are the Farnese Collection inherited by the Bourbon Dynasty, the gallery of 19th century aret, the historical apartments, the china and majoloca collections and the arms museum.

The Italian students were our tour guides. They have prepared short exposes about the sites we visited. In the photo Angela is making a historical review of the period and reasons for building the Capodimonte Palace.

Ms Tina Maione explained the details in a very underastandable way, so that everybody was intreagued.

Further inland is CASERTA, just a short train or bus ride direct from Naples. It is incongruously surrounded by a sprawl of industrial complexes and warehouses that stretch all the way back to Naples, it is known as the "Versailles of Naples" for its vast eighteenth-century royal palace, which utterly dominates the town. There's not much point in coming here if you don't want to see this; if you do, be sure to also see the old village of Caserta Vecchia, 10km north of the modern town, where the population lived before the building of the palace.

View to the vast parks and beautiful gardens of Caserta.

Ms Dian Licope, Ms Dilyana Ivanova and Ms Lina Molerova - in the Palace.

The weather was fine during our visit. We enjoyed the lovely sunshine, walking round the city with our new friends.

Italian and Bulgarian students in Caserta.

Ms Sarah Daudy and Ms Diane Licoppe, on their way to the school.

On the third day of our stay we visited the old part of the town. It was really fascinating but finally we needed some rest.

Sofia and Nikol, from the Bulgarian group, during the visit in the historical part of the city.

We had several project meetings. They were held in the school hall of Instituto Technico Industriale.

There was big meeting of the partners in the school hall. All the Italian students participating in the project and the representatives of the Belgium and Bulgarian schools presented their work so far.

It's very interesting and fun to get to know peers from foreign countries and make friends with them, but sometimes you need to talk to people from your own country - Bulgarian students and teachers, getting ready for a new day.

Our stay was not only project meetings, it was fun too. We visited Pompeii, which, with its 45 ha of excavations, represents and extraordinary wealth of architecture, sculptures, paintings and mosaics. The vesuvius eruption in 79AD buried the city with ash and rock, that allowed an exceptional preservation of the whole Roman city.

Ercolano - in Herculaneum the organic materials(wood, papyrus and vegetable fibre) are in an excellent state of preservation. The streets are narrow and often with a portico line; the houses are sumptuously decorated.

Our last stop was the famous resort Sorento. Though not crowded at this time of the year, we could feel the atmosphere that makes it so famous.

We liked sightseeing in the neighbourhood, but walking in the streets of Naples turned out to be most fascinating - feeling the atmosphere of the south and its warm and easy-going people.

The trees, so characteristic of Naples, will always stay in our minds as symbols of this magnificent city.

Castel dell'Ovo is a splendid castle in the fishing village (Borgo Marinari) of the Santa Lucia district. Its foundations rest on a tufa rock in the bay which was later connected to the mainland.

Santa Chiara is one of the most important Angevim monuments in Naples, originally built in the 14th century. The interior was altered in the 18th century to the Baroque style.

The main square in front of the Royal Palace.

SEE NAPLES AND DIE - we fully appriciated that saying. A part of our hearts will remain in this gorgeous city for ever.