a series of travel images from New Zealand, Napier is a city in Hawke's Bay, on the east coast of the North Island with a population of 61.000. It is famous for its architecture, and contains the largest concentration of inner-city Art Deco buildings in the world. In 1931 much of Napier was destroyed by an earthquake and a fire. When the city was rebuilt, it was reconstructed in the prevailing Art Deco style.