Sizes, fabrics and prints explained straight-talking, with the honesty of someone who really wears 'a maglietta (the...
In Naples, a graduation is never a private affair: it's a neighbourhood celebration. Here's how to choose an original...
The strongest card on the green table becomes, in Naples, the most elegant way to say who really calls the shots....
Born poor in Terra di Lavoro, Michelina Di Cesare chose the maquis and the rifle against a newly united Italy. A...
When the air turns crisp, in Naples people don't just reach for a hoodie: they reach for a piece of identity. Here's...
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...
From Greek Neapolis to the Four Days of Naples, from the munaciello to the bella 'mbriana: the history of Naples and the legends the city has been telling for centuries.
San Gennaro is important to the people of Naples, but so is Santa Patrizia, whose blood liquefies just like that of the patron saint of Naples(...)
Christmas has now arrived and every Neapolitan knows that, during this period, there are areas of the city that become almost impassable: one of these is certainly San Gregorio Armeno, the famous street in the historic centre that, during the Christmas period, is literally besieged by tourists and locals alike(...)
Between the end of 1904 and the beginning of 1905, the Naples Football Club was born, the first football club founded in Naples. Its colours, from the very start, were sky blue and sea blue(...)
Bradyseism is a phenomenon linked to volcanism, causing the ground level to rise or fall periodically. It is an effect that, on average, amounts to 1 centimetre per year, so it can be understood as slow when measured against the span of a human life, but rather fast and significant on a geological scale.
For many, however, she remains an unknown figure, despite being one of the oldest and most distinctive Neapolitan legends, alongside those of the Munaciello and the Janara(...)
It was strongly desired by the people of Naples to replace the previous little church, dating back to the 8th century. Its construction began in 1574 and was completed in 1580. It rose on the exact spot where San Gennaro (Saint Januarius) and his six companions were beheaded in martyrdom.
Beatified by Pope Paul VI in 1975 and canonised by Pope John Paul II in 1987, Giuseppe Moscati was born on 25 July 1880 in Benevento, the seventh of nine children of the magistrate Francesco Moscati and Rosa De Luca, of the Marquises of Roseto. Having graduated from school at just 17, he began his university studies at the medical faculty of the University of Naples. It was probably the choice of
Sciuscià is a word born, precisely, in relation to this practice, which developed between children and soldiers, with the former being hired by the latter, mainly as shoeshiners(...)
