Hotel Nuovo Rebecchino (Naples, Italy)

Nuovo Rebecchino is one of the oldest hotels in the city of Naples. It has been open since 1890 as the famous German painter Christian Wilhelm Allers tells us in his book "Beautiful Naples". He regularly stayed there in 1892 and said that a good traveller "….will not regret staying in a hotel close to the station or lunching in one of the good trattorias close by"; and he continues....."this is why, when I come to Naples, I always go to a hotel near the station, and more precisely, the Rebecchino hotel, also known as the Romano Palace, overlooking Corso Garibaldi which is always buzzing with life. Salvatore Di Giacomo, a famous Neapolitan writer also mentions it in his "Assunta Spina", renaming it the "Rebecchino Inn". The name Rebecchino comes from "Rebecca" : a musical instrument of Arabic origin that young minstrels from the fourteenth century used to entertain guests in the inns.