One particularly photogenic part of Naples, Italy – worthy of its own little blog post – is the Galleria Umberto 1. It is a public shopping gallery with apartments built 1887-1890 across from the opera house, and named after the then reigning king of Italy. From Wikipedia:

“The Galleria is a high and spacious cross-shaped structure, surmounted by a glass dome braced by 16 metal ribs. Of the four iron and glass-vaulted wings, one fronts on via Toledo (via Roma), still the main downtown thoroughfare, and another opens onto the San Carlo Theatre. It has returned to being an active center of Neapolitan civic life after years of decay. The building is part of the UNESCO listing of the Historic Centre of Naples as a World Heritage Site.”

The mosaics in the Galleria center show the 12 signs of the zodiac. Here Ed and I stand between our signs.