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Officials at the Pompeii archeological site have announced a dramatic new discovery, the skeleton of a man crushed by an enormous stone while trying to flee the explosion of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 A.D. Pompeii officials on Tuesday released a photograph showing the skeleton protruding from beneath a large block of stone that may have been a door jamb th...

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A prominent resort city for centuries, Baia catered to the recreational whims of the rich and powerful among the Roman elite. The city, which was located over natural volcanic vents, was famous for its healing medicinal hot springs which occurred all around the city and were quite easy to build spas over. Some of antiquity’s most powerful figures s...

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The deep crack in the rock which houses the crumbling buildings originated during a huge eruption which devastated the Mediterranean area 35.000 years ago. The flour mills, built from stone as far back as the 13th century,  took advantage of the constant stream at the bottom of the valley. They ground all the types of wheat needed by the Sorrentine...

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In the 1270s, Thomas Aquinas founded a Dominican academy in the monastery attached to San Domenico Maggiore. Extraordinary witness accounts from this time testify that the priest was able to levitate during meditation. In one instance, the sacristan of the basilica witnessed Aquinas levitating while simultaneously speaking to Christ, who compliment...

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Archaeologists have uncovered a 'street of balconies' during excavations at a previously unexplored area of Pompeii. Here parapets and floor tiles bear witness to four projecting balconies that withstood the devastating eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, which buried the ancient Roman city in a thick layer of volcanic rock and ash. Archaeologists have...

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Cilento, terrain in the Region of Campania marked by gently-rolling hills covered in olive trees that see their reflection in the blue of the Tyrhennian, is pure magic and a crossroads between multiple populations and traditions. Traversed by savage torrents and thick woods of chestnuts and evergreens, this splendid landscape is also interspersed w...

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In spring, between May 7th and May 10th, artistic illuminations, angels, archangels, games and spectacular fireworks are at the center of an intense ritual that the community of Ottaviano (Naples) dedicates to the patron saint, Michael, the archangel who led the angelic hosts in the fight against the rebel angels commanded by Lucifer, annihilating...

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A sei anni fischiava le arie delle opere davanti agli amici della madre, e oggi Elena Somarè calca i palcoscenici di tutto il mondo, dove porta i più grandi classici della tradizione sudamericana e napoletana arrangiati in modo unico attraverso il fischio melodico, di cui lei è una delle principali interpreti.  Debutta sul palco dello storico Alexa...

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Si è concluso con grande successo l’American Tour dell’Associazione Internazionale Joe Petrosino di Padula che ha partecipato, attraverso una sua delegazione, ad alcun importanti eventi organizzati negli Stati Uniti d'America per celebrare la sempre più nota figura di Joe Petrosino, il poliziotto italo-americano che divenne il primo vero martire de...

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Journalist, writer and scholar Carlo Avvisati has continued with his project to translate ancient Roman graffiti found at Pompeii from Latin into Neapolitan dialect with the publication of a second piece on Facebook. The new translation regards writing at the 'workshop of Successus' which is considered one of the most poetic samples of graffiti fou...

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