Campanica | Monitoring Italy's Campania region around Naples

 THE ARCHIVES OF THE WORLD'S OLDEST BANK Three hundred and thirty archive rooms, around 80 kilometers (50 miles) of shelves, documents with 17 million names, hundreds of thousands of payments and detailed accounts: The archive of the Banco di Napoli is unique – a vault full of memories and stories, a reflection of the development of Naples and southern Italy from 1600 to the present day. «The historical archive of the Banco di Napoli is the world's largest collection of banking documents.» And the Treccani, Italy's definitive encyclopedia, calls the bank the «oldest credit institution in Europe.» A trip to the archives of the world's oldest bank reveals a story of a lost Caravaggio and a city of tall tales | NZZ