Horses, carts, parasols, and a surging crowd of Neapolitan street life press toward the massive triumphal arch of Porta Capuana — the Renaissance gateway that Giuliano da Maiano built for Ferdinand I of Aragon in 1484 — in this handsomely colorized photographic postcard published by Berger & Krauss of Berlin around the early 1900s. The gate's two flanking cylindrical towers, the marble relief panels above the arch, and the bustling market stalls just inside give the image an almost cinematic energy; a seller's cart at left, a woman with an umbrella at center, and a gaggle of bareheaded workmen in the foreground turn a tourist view into an accidental social document of Belle Époque Naples. Berger & Krauss (Berlin W.) were among the major German export-postcard publishers who supplied hand-colored lithographic cards to Italy's tourist trade before World War I; their multilingual "Weltpostverein / Union postale universelle" back legend and the multi-language correspondence-card text identify this as one of their undivided-back era productions, consistent with c.1900–1905. Someone — probably a traveler named something beginning with M, to judge by the penciled "May 22–" on the reverse — visited Naples on the 22nd of May in an unrecorded year, bought this card, and never sent it. The image is colorized over a real photograph, giving it unusual topographic fidelity for the era.