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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;eddiespin, post: 500830, member: 4920&quot;]Yup, that&#039;s the one. Written by newspaper journalist and songwriter Giuseppe “Peppino” Turco and set to music by composer Luigi Denza, in 1880, this little number was actually (or, supposedly?) a marketing stunt to encourage the timid tourists of Pompeii to throw caution to the wind and take a ride (a chance?) on the newly-built funicular railway to the top of Mount Vesuvius. You see, the City wasn&#039;t making very much money off the tourists when they were just standing there in the streets, looking up at the volcano, and so, they built this expensive contraption...and yet, only to have discovered, everybody was afraid to get on it. This little light-hearted musical score evidently did the trick (...as story goes, anyway). <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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