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NEAPOLITANS SEE NAPLES AS A PROBLEM, TOURISTS AS A KIND OF ENIGMA The city, which will be 2,500 years old in 2025, has seen mass tourism soar: a 33% increase since 2021, with 14 million visitors this year. After Rome, it is where tourists stay the longest in Italy — an average of three days — a sign that it is perceived to require time. Deciphering Naples is one of those recurring challenges of humanity, a literary challenge of the first order, like looking at Vesuvius itself. But its charm is eternal. Naples, the most difficult secret to tell | El Pais