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However you actually get to Naples, there’s a good chance that the first place you’ll see is Piazza Garibaldi , a long, wide square crisscrossed by traffic lanes that cuts into the city centre from the modern train station. It’s the city’s transport hub - most of the city buses leave from here, as do the metropolitana and Circumvesuviana lines - and one of its most hectic junctions; indeed it’s Piazza Garibaldi, perhaps more so than any other part of the city, that puts people off Naples. The buildings aren’t particularly distinguished, you’re likely to be accosted on all sides by street hawkers selling a dubious array of pirate cassettes and cigarettes, underwear and sunglasses, and you need to have all your wits about you to successfully negotiate the traffic, which comes from all sides. Of late, the area around here has also become a centre for Naples’ growing African community, with a number of African restaurants and Moroccan groceries.

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