Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, better known simply as Caravaggio,  in Naples lived for only eighteen months between October 1606 and June 1607 and subsequently in the autumn of 1609 until his death occurred in 1610 in Porto Ercole on the return journey from Naples to Rome. Despite the brevity, it was an intense and fundamental period for his ar...

The Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte in Naples, Italy, is the getaway that doesn’t require going away. Once a palace and hunting grounds for King Charles VII of Naples and Sicily, the public venue features a museum boasting works from celebrated Italian artists such as Caravaggio, Raphael and Artemisia Gentileschi. It also has more than 331,000 ac...

Naples is an unforgettable city, a unique place where art, culture, smells and tastes are recognizable and mingle among the historic center's narrow alleys, squares and districts, until they blend with the scents of the wind coming from the sea. If getting around on foot getting lost in the streets packed with people is exciting, there is an even m...

When: September 18 2023 at 18:00 - Where: Istituto Italiano di Cultura - NY - Please RSVP to iicny.rsvp@gmail.com Indicating: “Minnozzi” In “Naples, port of the soul” there is the Naples of the world, with its melodies, harmonies, its stories of love and passion that speak to people’s hearts because they are an expression of colors, sounds and rhyt...

Naples, with the blue of the sea that blends into the color of the sky, with its millenary history that embraces art, literature, music and much more, with its vivacity and with its being perpetually suspended between modernity and tradition, is a city that never gets boring.  This is why it's also a place to be discovered and rediscovered a thousa...

Make your way to Italy this summer (or are you already there?) and you’ll see swarms of Americans. They’re sipping Aperol spritzes on the Amalfi Coast, sweating in the Colosseum, road tripping through the Tuscan countryside. But they are noticeably absent in the country’s third-largest city, Naples. And they’re missing out. It is, in case you didn’...

American Airlines has announced the introduction of the first direct flight from Naples Capodichino International Airport to Philadelphia International Airport, the airline's main transatlantic hub. The new direct flight will be introduced on June 6, 2024, and will operate on a daily frequency throughout the 2024 summer season through October 2024....

Located on the western coast of Italy, Naples is a bustling city that offers a unique blend of history, culture, artistic treasures and, of course, exceptional cuisine. Known as the birthplace of pizza, Naples is a food lover’s paradise and an essential destination for any traveler visiting Italy. In this article, we will explore the key attraction...

One of the most important parts of Naples technically has many names, but everyone just calls it Spaccanapoli. Why? Spacca means “to split,” and Spaccanapoli literally splits the historical center in two! The narrow street has its ancient roots in the Greek era of the city. It was one of the original decumani, or east-west streets, from when Naples...

The wealthy Roman patrician Gaius Antonius lies on the terrace of his magnificent villa high above the Gulf of Naples and looks out at the sea. A slave serves him wine and exquisite food. Just a few days earlier, Antonius had fled the July heat of Rome to his country estate, which lacks nothing in luxury and amenities. The Senate of the Roman Empir...