Sizes, fabrics and prints explained straight-talking, with the honesty of someone who really wears 'a maglietta (the...
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The City Council has allocated €50 million for the redevelopment of the Diego Armando Maradona stadium, ahead of...
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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.
Naples, a city of sailors, artists and pizza makers, counts among its oldest passions that of sailing and the sea, and so it comes as no surprise that it has a deep-rooted tradition of Neapolitan fishermen.
The Basilica of San Gennaro Fuori le Mura (St Januarius Outside the Walls) is one of the many churches of Naples. It was built, as its name suggests, outside the city walls, far from the pagan world, precisely in the Rione Sanità district, within the grounds of the San Gennaro dei Poveri hospital.
It was 1737 when Naples gave birth to the oldest opera house in the world, preceding Milan's La Scala by 41 years and Venice's La Fenice by 55(...)
An ancient maritime republic, its founding is attributed by some sources to the Romans. From the 9th century onwards, alongside Pisa, Venice and Genoa, Amalfi sought to gain control of the Mediterranean Sea(...)
The Masseria dei Domenicani (Farmhouse of the Dominicans) is one of the oldest historic-religious buildings in the area of Soccavo, a district to the west of Naples. This convent complex is located in Via Vicinale San Domenico.
It was founded in 1585 by Giovanni d'Avalos, son of Alfonso d'Aragona. It was built on the site of an earlier church dedicated to the Transfiguration, later renamed after the Ss. Redentore (Holy Redeemer).
A walk of over a kilometre, a constant flow of tourists, locals and workers, a host of affordable shops and stores with three-zero price tags, home to magnificent monumental palaces, churches, important side streets and eateries offering tempting street food that scents the whole route with its aromas: this and much more is Via Toledo, in Naples.
It stands between Piazza Trieste e Trento and Via Toledo, where once there were only parallel streets connected by small alleyways that did not enjoy a good reputation: here, in fact, taverns and houses of ill repute were located, where crimes of every kind were committed.
During Roman times, Sorrento was crossed by three interconnected valleys: besides the Vallone dei Mulini (Valley of the Mills), there was also a valley that ended at Marina Grande and another that stretched inland, into the hills of the town. The latter two have now almost entirely disappeared, replaced by roads and buildings. The Vallone dei Mulini, however, is still visible today and continues to charm tourists
In the historic centre of Naples, more precisely on the Pirozzoli hill, the most panoramic spot in the whole Vergini district, stand a church and a convent which together make up the Complesso dei Cinesi (Chinese Complex).
