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VOYAGE HIGHLIGHT
NAPLES, ITALY
ritty Naples is a city we usually
avoid. Whenever our cruises
docked there, we’d escape to
G Pompeii, the Amalfi Coast,
Capri—anywhere but this frenetic metropo-
lis. But this time, we were drawn in by the
magnetic pull of chef Anthony Bourdain.
A born storyteller, Bourdain was a cul-
tural explorer who celebrated the messy,
the imperfect, the authentic. His reverence
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IN BOURDAIN’S FOOTSTEPS
for Neapolitan pizza, captured so vividly in
a 2011 No Reservations episode, inspired
our pilgrimage into the heart of Naples -
and the heart of his culinary passion.
When Bourdain roared into Naples on a
red Vespa; he encountered a city that had
seen empires rise and fall, a city that
thrived despite its reputation for chaos and
ties to the Camorra. He saw the garbage
piled high, the graffiti scrawled across an-