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,...
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(...)
Unique and inimitable, it seems to have been born in Gragnano just after the Second World War, so much so that in this area you can find it in almost any restaurant or pizzeria, although the real boom came at the end of the 1980s, when it became one of Campania’s traditional foods(...)
Scarpariello is an age-old Neapolitan dish. The word comes from “scarparo”, which in dialect means "cobbler", a trade that many practised in Naples, especially in the Quartieri Spagnoli (Spanish Quarters).
In this triumph of sweets, there's no shortage of innovation, like that of the Roccobabà. This treat was born from an idea by Emilio Goglia, a pastry chef from Casal di Principe, who, inspired by the traditional babà (a Neapolitan rum-soaked sponge cake), had the intuition to reinvent it as a semifreddo coated in a delicious chocolate cream(...)
Venice, like Naples, is a city of water. In Naples the sea, Vesuvius and the islands; in Venice the river, the canals and the gondolas. Two cities united by water, yet so different in culinary traditions and places to see. Let's look together at these differences(...)
On 28 and 29 June 2017, with the awarding of certificates and the closing ceremony, in the presence of the rector of the Università Federico II di Napoli, Gaetano Manfredi, the director of the Developer Academy, Giorgio Ventre, and Gordon Shukwit, head of Information Technology and Learning Technologies at Apple, the first cycle of courses of the first Developer Apple Acade
Città della Scienza is one of our city's many crowning glories: an initiative for the promotion and dissemination of science that takes place in Naples, within a complex made up of an interactive science museum, a business incubator and a training centre; it is run by the IDIS Foundation - Città della Scienza and is located in the Bagnoli district.
Every region, as we know, has its own typical dishes, symbols of tradition, but two, in particular, have become synonymous, respectively, with Southern and Northern Italy: we're talking about pizza and polenta.
Officially, it begins on 17 January, the feast day of Sant'Antonio Abate (Saint Anthony the Abbot), and, initially, it was a celebration reserved for countesses and princes, nobles and the Neapolitan aristocracy: this is the Neapolitan Carnival, a festival already deeply felt back in the 17th century; indeed, it was during this very period that the typical Neapolitan popular masks were born, masks that have since become part of history(...)
As for the first, we've already talked about it: a typical Neapolitan dish, made with meat, tomato sauce and vasincola (basil), it's left to simmer for 4 to 6 hours. It's the king of Sunday and its aroma fills the homes and alleyways of all Naples(...)
