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Una casa a due piani, dalle stanze piccole distribuite quasi una dentro l'altra, che guarda Padula dall'alto. Un tempo vi abitava con la famiglia Joe Petrosino, il poliziotto padulese naturalizzato americano, ucciso dalla Mano Nera a Palermo il 12 marzo 1909. Ora, piacevolmente 'avvolto' da fotografie, arredi e oggetti simbolo, ad aprire le porte d...

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The Bourbon Royal residences in Campania have been finding a new life in the recent months, thanks to a great job of synergy between the Campania region and the Italian Ministry of Culture. It is a group of more than twenty sites, all built between the beginning of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth by order of Charles of B...

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Italophiles and pizza nerds, get ready: Zia Esterina is opening on Thursday at 112 Mulberry Street, the pizza fritta and fried calzone spot from Naples very own Gino Sorbillo. He’s one of Italy’s most public food figures, an Italian TV regular whose reputation was enhanced when he defied the Camorra when it allegedly torched his restaurant. And he...

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Production of certified buffalo mozzarella cheese from the southern Campania region will have to comply with stricter rules to meet growing demand from foreign and remote countries. The decision was announced by the director of the protection consortium, Pier Maria Saccani. The new regulation of a business that has reached €500 million in sales inc...

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The Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco is pleased to announce the first in a series of evenings devoted to the theme "Literary Locations," an exploration of the intimate connection between author and the place that provides the backdrop to their stories. The choice for the first event in this series is author Elena Ferrante, whose quartet...

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According to various media a team of physicists working at Federico II University in Naples reproduced in a lab a very small scale of the spacetime tunnel known as the ‘Einstein-Rosen bridge’, or Wormole, and described in the theory elaborated by Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen in the 1930s. The coordinator of the international group that carried...

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By combining traditional archaeology with 3D technology, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have managed to reconstruct a house in Pompeii to its original state before the volcano eruption of Mount Vesuvius thousands of years ago. Unique video material has now been produced, showing their creation of a 3D model of an entire block of houses. A...

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Paradise of Exiles: Early Photography in Italy at the Metropolitan Museum of Art begins with the first photographic images to arrive in Italy, a delicate 1839–40 album of botanical negative images sent by William Henry Fox Talbot to botanist Antonio Bertoloni. The ghostly silhouettes of ferns, grasses, and other specimens, created with Talbot’s cam...

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Presentata a Napoli allo Spazio Guida editori l’edizione 2017 del Premio letterario nazionale Amerigo delle Quattro libertà (The Amerigo Four Freedoms Award). Il riconoscimento, promosso dall’associazione Amerigo presieduta da Vito Cozzoli e che ha sede presso l’Ambasciata Americana in Italia, punta a valorizzare le opere letterarie (saggi, romanzi...

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After completing our annual month of Italian language study in Rome, my wife Carole and I headed south for yet another tour of Southern Italy’s many cities, towns, and villages.  We had traveled to the South on at least three previous visits. Our itinerary included stops from the totally unknown to the familiar, including the now famous UNESCO Nati...

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