Naples Nativity scenes

Pastori del presepe napoletano Antonio Fucito, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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

Spacca-Napoli

spaccanapoli ftd img foto di Enzo Abramo Pixabay 748667_1920

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

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