Last modified on Sun 31 Jan 2021 04.58 EST
Church bells chime and children play freely in the square named after the late actor Massimo Troisi. A restaurant serves fresh fish to the smattering of customers eating outside, and fishermen mend their nets. With clear blue skies, it seems like a typical afternoon in mid-summer.
But this is late January in Corricella, a 17th-century port in Procida, and the scene pretty much sums up the pace of life on what is the smallest and least known island in the bay of Naples.
Parts of Troisiâs 1994 Oscar-winning
Il Postinowere filmed in Corricella, and the area shot to fame again a few years later as the fictional village of Mongibello in