Itinerari e fatti da Pompeii a Napoli
Arteteca Tours 
Maradona: Neapolitans’ God (D10S) 1984, July 5th, St.Paul Stadium (renamed Maradona Stadium in 2020): 80.000 Neapolitans celebrate the Pibe de Oro (The gilded guy) arrival what modified forever the football pride of the town, even before ‘O rre’ (the King in Neapolitan dialect) kicked his first ball in the so called bright blue city! Since … Read more
Neapolitan ex-voto The donation of votive offerings in Naples is a still spread and felt habit. Moreover, the Neapolitan ones are different from the traditional ex-voto. The classic ones are generally simple paintings depicting dangerous events, like accidents or diseases, characterized by a happy end for the victim, while the Neapolitan ones are an expression … Read more
The red horn: a traditional Neapolitan lucky charm One of the most complicated moments in a journey of mine is to look for a traditional souvenir: many handicrafts are disappearing and replaced by anonymous magnets, so I often decide to bring back home at least some flavours. In Naples it is still possible to find … Read more
Saint Martin Charterhouse I still guess what can be better: to visit it at the beginning or in the end of a journey in Naples… Starting from here can mean to immediately experience how to get around, by using the underground or the cable car, and have a wonderful and complete idea of what is … Read more
Naples Nativity scenes The main and most traditional handicraft in town. Don’t miss a walk in S. Gregorio Armeno street, the only Naples Christmas Street: short, narrow and full of handmade products since the XVIII century. It is wonderful to get lost in the tiny shops where craftsmen, since generations, still work according to old … Read more
Lard and pepper Tarallo A hole surrounded by a taste delight: that’s the Neapolitan tarallo! Less known than the Puglia (another Region of Southern Italy) one, the neapolitan tarallo is the typical snack to be offered to your guests or to enjoy by your own when you get suddenly hungry (and not only in a … Read more
Neapolitans and the Dead A still…live devotion!!! Yes, Neapolitans’ connection with the Afterworld is daily and special, not only about their own dear relatives passed away, but for the so called “ragged Souls” as well. There are many churches in Naples with crypts housing bones with no longer identity, since many of them belong to … Read more
Archaeological Museum of Naples A precious museum whose oneness is determined by the provenance of its finds, most of which are from Pompeii and Herculaneum and found in about two centuries of excavations, so a real museum of the territory! Mosaics, frescoes, several daily life objects, finds from the so-called Phlegrean Fields, a charming volcanic … Read more
Artistic Underground Stations By sure not the only example of this kind (Moscow Underground has been one of the first artistic ones…), but Naples Art Underground Stations have become a new unmissable destination in town. About means of transports Naples has some important primacies, such as the birth of the first Italian Railway station in … Read more
Spacca-Napoli A street, a world! Spaccanapoli crosses the old city heart with its thousand-year-old history and its distinctive“body”: line, grove, split characterizing this part of the city outline. If you look for “Spaccanapoli street” on a map or in your mobile you will never find it: this is the folkloristic name of a street long … Read more