Naples Underground

Napoli sotterranea Armando Mancini from Napoli, Italia, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Naples Underground There is something like a negative film of Naples that is fascinating and surprising: it is made of its numerous, rich of history and stories from ancient times to nowadays subterranean spaces. Greek walls, roman cisterns, crypts, catacombs telling about architectural and engineering skills, devotions and superstitions, air-raid shelters that saved many lives … Read more

The “art” of getting by

The “art” of getting by The most attractive aspect of never giving up and of that productive imagination and smartness identifying the Neapolitans! Sometimes this is wrongly associated to the intention of taking advantage of somebody, more often this is actually a natural ability to reinvent oneself day by day, because of very high levels … Read more

Neapolitan Pizza

pizza napoletana foto di aurelien-lemasson-theobald-x00CzBt4Dfk-unsplash

Neapolitan Pizza The most common and direct association between Naples and its food! Although our local cooking is extremely various, pizza is the queen of not only special occasions, because it  is the quickest and most chosen fast food we almost daily get and, in most of the cases, we eat it just standing or … Read more

Does it ever rain in Naples?

Talarico maestro ombrellaio a Napoli dal 1860

Does it ever rain in Naples? “Chiste è ‘o paese do sole” says a famous Neapolitan song written in 1925 by Libero Bovio and Vincenzo D’ Annibale, while Pino Daniele replies with “Schizzechea with love” 63 years later (“Schizzechéa in Neapolitan dialect means “to drizzle”). “Chiste è ‘o paese do sole” says a famous Neapolitan … Read more