The TV series The Brilliant Friend is thrilling audiences like few others. Therefore, we decided to reconstruct, for the most devoted fans, the possible routes related to the places of the fiction in Campania.

The set in Caserta

The scenes of the drama that were shot in the region with Naples as its capital, had as its main location a set located in Caserta, where the Rione Luzzatti of Gianturco was reconstructed, precisely in the former Saint Gobain area. That of The Brilliant Friend is currently, with its six hectares, the largest set in Europe.

The fiction landscape

Rather than this huge set, however, it is surely the outdoor locations that strike the viewer's eye most. The blues of the skies and bodies of water remain in the hearts of those who have never seen Naples and touch the chords of melancholy to those who know it well.

The 1950s setting certainly helps invigorate and reinforce these nostalgic feelings.

What is certainly true is that these are places not to be missed if you want to visit Naples and its province: we are treated to the breathtaking views of Posillipo, Ischia, Amalfi and the ever-vivid colors, never the same at second glance, of the historic center.

The first route: Lenu in Naples with Dad

Here we propose our first route, related to a particular moment in the first season and the first major discovery of the new for one of the two protagonists. Soon there will be on the website all the points of interest touched by this and the other routes of the The Brilliant Friend. Now you will be able to see below the details of some points related to this route, read their history, learn more about them and try to include them in your itinerary, thanks to our trip creator.

We recommend wearing very comfortable shoes to traverse the center of Naples. You can start from Naples Montesanto, where her father suggests that Elena choose by subway.

The purpose of the field trip, in fact, is to explain to her the way to school. In this regard, the classical high school that Elena attends, Garibaldi High School, is in Charles III Square, but the set used by the drama is actually the state art high school.

Elena exploring the historic center

In these scenes of discovery we see together with Elena her father, who appears to us a different man in his working dimension, unveiled by new light as the city.

Elena's father is an usher in a palace near the Maschio Angioino, and it is here that, shaking hands with those he meets, he stops to tell his daughter carried by the hand through the wide spaces of the historic center, amidst the noise of the first cars:

"...it's nice, piccerè, two real males there are in Naples, your daddy and that one there."

It is precisely to the Angevin male that Elena's father refers with this sentence. Small in front of the grandeur of the castle, one of the most famous symbols of Naples, we watch in wonder as a young Lenù discovers the well-to-do Naples of the 1950s.

We also accompany Lenuccia to high school.

Crossing Corso Garibaldi between neo-Renaissance and Art Nouveau buildings, father and daughter arrive in Piazza Carlo III, where the Albergo dei poveri, one of the largest monumental buildings in Europe, stands.

They then continue on Via Foria where they find the Botanical Garden.

They cross Via Chiaia, Via Filangieri, Via dei Mille and Piazza Amedeo, which are still the streets for luxury shopping

The undisputed protagonist is definitely the Naples waterfront. With her father Lenuccia walks along Via Caracciolo to Castel dell'Ovo where she finally sees the sea.

"He was agitated, thunderous, the wind took his breath away, glued his clothes on and lifted his hair off his forehead."