Sizes, fabrics and prints explained straight-talking, with the honesty of someone who really wears 'a maglietta (the...
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Born poor in Terra di Lavoro, Michelina Di Cesare chose the maquis and the rifle against a newly united Italy. A...
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The City Council has allocated €50 million for the redevelopment of the Diego Armando Maradona stadium, ahead of...
At the fifth edition of Pizza Maxima, the Oscars of Italian pizza, Franco Pepe confirms his title as Best Pizzeria in...
When the means are few, so is the result. Let's discover the most realistic Neapolitan saying there is.
One word, ‘scugnizzo’ (Neapolitan street kid), and it holds the whole of Naples inside it. We tell you how the year's...
At the market, at the counter, in the family: there's always someone who complains and gets more. It's the sharp...
Districts, churches, castles, alleys and museums: a guide to the places of Naples and its surroundings, with the stories you will not find in guidebooks.
The Sferisterio of Fuorigrotta is an enormous structure that many will surely remember with a smile. Today it is nothing more than a heap of rubbish, but it was once used for Basque pelota sporting competitions in Naples. It stands along Via Fuorigrotta, on the right-hand side, shortly before entering the Laziale tunnel.
This is a genuine necropolis whose labyrinthine tunnels stretch out beneath the Rione Sanità (Sanità district). It seems incredible that one of the most colourful, noisy and lively places in the whole city should conceal, beneath its very pavement, such a macabre and extraordinary reality.
This year it turns a remarkable 795 years old, making it the oldest secular, state-run university in the world. This, too, like many other records, is a distinctly Neapolitan achievement, since we’re talking about the University of Naples “Federico II”.
Naples and Rome are two great cities, where you can truly find it all, from good food to monuments, from traditional songs to typical restaurants. We've compared the two metropolises through ten of these characteristics.
Both are cities immensely rich in art and history, with an illustrious past behind them, and both continue to enchant millions upon millions of visitors thanks to an imposing artistic heritage of inestimable value.
The Via Toledo metro station is truly a work of art in its own right, so much so that, in 2013, it won the Emirates Leaf International Award as Public Building of the Year and, later, the ITA – International Tunnelling Association award, the so-called Oscar of underground works.
The history of Amalfi's main place of worship dates back a long way, and the cathedral's original design has been completely transformed over the centuries, gradually absorbing various styles, from Romanesque to Rococo.
The University station on Line 1 of the Naples Metro is, perhaps, one of the most beautiful in the city, alongside Toledo station, voted the most beautiful in Europe(...)
It stood in Piazza Trieste e Trento, diagonally between the Royal Palace and the San Carlo theatre. It was built in 1543 and demolished in 1837, with a modest façade and two corner towers. Inside there was a chapel, whose carved wooden portal still exists today, serving as the entrance door to the chapel of the Royal Palace.
This is one of the oldest sporting venues in Europe, which for three quarters of a century has hosted trotting, galloping and steeplechase races.
