“Now we struggle to remember all the municipalities in which it was decided to name a street or square after the Bourbons – declared the professor. Gennaro De Crescenzo, president of the Neo-Bourbon Movement -. This time it’s Herculaneum’s turn with a great added value: it is a large square that overlooks those wonderful excavations wanted by the Bourbons. Thanks to mayor Buonajuto, the council, those responsible for the excavations and their international sponsors: that square – adds De Crescenzo – has now become a positive symbol from a negative symbol, as the authorities also declared. This too, however, is the fruit of all these years of neo-Bourbon cultural battles. Even so, history changes. Despite appeals, petitions, thousands of signatures and ‘overwhelming’ polls, only the city of Naples is missing, the ancient capital still the “victim” of a narrow political-intellectual elite with few roots and little pride which seems to have no intention to give space to the real characters who made Naples the capital, perhaps replacing the ‘fake heroes of the homeland’”.
“As a young man from Portico, I am very happy that three nearby Vesuvian cities, such as San Giorgio a Cremano, passing through Portici and today Ercolano, in just a few years have rediscovered the history of a great family and a great King like Charles of Bourbon, who gave so much to these areas – declared Emilio Caserta, youth director of the Neo-Bourbon Movement – this means that there is a cultural revolution underway, and that there are also many presences in the institutions that are rediscovering certain truths, but above all there are citizens who make their voices heard on these issues. We young people also need this to be proud of being Neapolitans, from Portice, from Ercolano and from the South.”
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