funiculi funicula

Peppino Turco. ceriabet 88 " Funiculì, Funiculà " ( IPA: [funikuˈli (f)funikuˈla]) is a Neapolitan song composed in 1880 by Luigi Denza to lyrics by Peppino Turco It was written to commemorate the opening of the first funicular railway on Mount Vesuvius It was presented by Turco and Denza at the Piedigrotta festival the same year