Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “naples”
The premise of travel guru Peter Greenberg’s new book got me thinking…where NOT to go in Italy. Greenberg’s book Don’t Go There!: The Travel Detective’s Essential Guide to the Must-Miss Places of the World details “must-miss” destinations around the world. I must say I was curious about what he might have included about Italy that I just stopped by the …
Our fr*ee online calendar of events is back and filled with tantalizing festivals, concerts and celebrations taking place this summer and fall in Italy. Here are some highlights: Donnafugata (Sicily): Calici di Stelle (Goblets of Stars) August 10, 2008 Italians throughout the land celebrate Notte di San Lorenzo (celebrating San Lorenzo on August 10th) outside, under the stars. It is …
She’s in a nativity scene of course…Okay, back up. Naples is known for its artisans who excel in creating handmade presepi (nativity scenes) – there’s a whole street of shops selling presepi the city’s Spanish Quarter. Each year the offerings get more creative and this year, Gennaro di Virgilio made figurines of American presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John …
Talk about rubbing salt in the wounds of Mafia member Walter Schiavone, who was arrested for murder in 1999, Italian authorities have decided to turn his “Scarface-esque” mansion into a physical rehabilitation center for Naples residents. According to The Guardian , Schiavone was so obsessed with the character of Scarface that he built a $ 2.5-million dollar replica of the …
An escalating trash crisis in Naples that has left the city in almost unlivable conditions since Monday. “Doctors described the situation as “dramatic” and warned that the city faced a health emergency,” according to a report from Italian news agency ANSA. Locals are fed up with the mountains of trash that have been piling up on the streets in and …
