The Lampadedromìa tells the story of Pythagorean Naples: at the San Lorenzo Maggiore Complex a dialogue with Teresa Tauro on the true story of the origins of Naples

Was there a precise Pythagorean geometric design behind the birth of Naples 2500 years ago? The question has fascinated historians, philosophers, mathematicians, and archaeologists for centuries. And now, a major academic study has succeeded in supporting with scientific rigor what until now had been merely a fascinating hypothesis. The credit goes to Neapolitan architect Teresa Tauro, born in Castellana Grotte, Puglia, and educated at the University of Naples Federico II, who has collected, documented, and argued her extensive research in the volume "Alle origini dell'urbanistica di Napoli" (Pandemos Editore), co-authored with the scientific contribution of Fausto Longo, professor of Archaeology and History of Greek and Roman Art at the University of Salerno.
On the occasion of its fourth edition, the Lampadedromìa, the oldest sporting event attested in Naples, closely linked to the cult of Partenope and antecedent to the Isolimpic Games established by Augustus, has organized a conversation open to the public in the San Lorenzo Maggiore Complex in Naples on Saturday 29 June at 17 pm during which Teresa Tauro will discuss the “Pythagorean Naples” with journalists, academics and experts in history, mathematics, architecture, urban planning and philosophy.
Following the guided tour in the subsoil of the archaeological area of ​​San Lorenzo Maggiore (that is, what remains of the Greek settlement of the city of Naples).
The Neapolitan Lampdromìa
The fourth edition of the Lampadedromìa takes place as a collateral event to the XXX Summer Universiade, anticipating by a few days the opening ceremony of the eagerly awaited sporting event, as an ideal witness between the ancient Neapolitan sporting competitions and the Universiade, which not by chance has adopted the siren Partenope as its mascot.
The program of the event includes two days of initiatives, including conferences, choreographies, theatrical performances and the actual torchlight race, which has chosen a route that allows it to skirt many of the splendid archaeological sites of the Archaeological Park of the Phlegraean Fields and Naples, actively involving the administrations of the Municipalities of Pozzuoli and Naples, who have enthusiastically welcomed the project, which in perspective wants to reach the 42Km of the Marathon and vary the route in order to include an ever-increasing number of cultural and landscape assets of the Gulf of Naples.