Naples ’44

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Mondragone

Mondragone is a comune or municipality in the Province of Caserta in the Italian region of Campania. It is located about 45 kilometres (28 mi) northwest of Naples and about 40 kilometres (25 mi) west of Caserta. It faces mountains on one side and ocean on the other, with the former lending it a reputation for game birds such as quail.

In the book

A Camorra town on the coast north of Naples; Lewis notes it as the narrow corridor by which the ‘secret tribal life’ of the Camorra zone reaches the sea.

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Appears in 1 diary entry.

  1. July 12 1944
    A rare day off as tourist to Pozzuoli reveals a town strangely untouched by the war, calmer and more foreign-feeling than the rest of the Naples area.

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