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...
Who San Gennaro was, the miracle of the blood that liquefies, and the feast on 19 September. Plus that close,...
When you think of Cistecca, you can't help but connect it to the famous American Cheesesteak, also known as the Philadelphia Cheesesteak(...)
Naples has plenty of them, but there was once an even greater number, as going to the cinema used to be one of Neapolitans' favourite pastimes. Nowadays, unfortunately, with the arrival of pay-per-view television such as Sky, Netflix and Mediaset Premium, young people especially prefer to choose the film, TV series or documentary to watch, enjoying it comfortably at home. That said, it's still always a pleasure
In Naples, as everyone knows, coffee is a religion — there must be a perfect balance between aroma and flavour; it's a break from the world, a moment to devote to yourself(...)
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 recipe was invented by Luigi Dell’Amura in the early 1950s and patented on 19 December 1960. Luigi, in his bakery in Vico Equense, created this pizza by chance (called "al metro", meaning "by the metre", by a journalist) and later opened a restaurant, which still exists today and is one of the most famous in the whole Sorrentine Peninsula.
Nennella is the temple of Neapolitan culinary tradition. To call it the most famous trattoria in the Spanish Quarters is an understatement: it is, in fact, the most famous in all of Naples.
Pizza fritta (fried pizza) is one of Naples' most famous street foods worldwide. There's no one who finds themselves in Naples without trying one: light dough, ricotta, cicoli (crispy pork cracklings), salami, provola cheese (and whatever else takes your fancy) and a quick fry, ensuring both crispiness and softness at the same time.
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.
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(...)
