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The South dominates the podium of Italians' favorite destinations ahead of the Easter vacations. These are the data provided by Jetcost, a search engine for airfares, hotels and car rentals. Once again this year, the study shows, our compatriots will favor Italy, with as many as 14 Italian destinations among the 25 most searched for ahead of the ho...

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More than 600 scrolls originally buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. could contain potential treasures from the time ranging from unread poems by Greek poet Sappho to early Christian philosophy. But, as of yet, we can’t read them because the scrolls are charred shut. Researchers hope that the use of artificial intelligence—and the i...

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There are many words in the Neapolitan language that are practically untranslatable or which, in their Italian version, lose their strength and meaning. I am thinking about cazzimma (to be cunning and opportunistic) or intalliare (to procrastinate) or even appucundria (nostalgia, similar to the Portuguese term “saudade”), vajassa (a foul-mouthed wo...

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I’m caught behind a funeral procession in the narrow streets of Spaccanapoli, Naples’ historic district. The men and women, old and young, come out from the shops, bars and from their balcony windows, one after the other, to pay their respects. They take off their hats and move their hands to sign the cross. I look up and see photos on pieces of fa...

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For centuries, Catholics in Naples have been devising delicious ways to get around Lenten dietary restrictions on meat. A case in point is frittata di scammaro, a pan-fried pasta dish studded with anchovies, olives, capers, raisins, and pine nuts. It’s so crisp you can slice it into wedges and eat it out of hand, as Neapolitans often do.   You migh...

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The Rione Sanità is one of the most evocative and characteristic places in all of Naples and probably in Italy as well. Indeed, its tradition, folklore and colors have often attracted tourists from all over the world. It is a world suspended between the ancient and everyday, between the sacred and the profane, which has made it one of the city's ma...

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One of the newest additions to New York’s ever-evolving pizza landscape is not so new at all, at least in terms of its pedigree. L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele opened in Naples in 1870 and has since garnered world renown. Fans of Elizabeth Gilbert’s “Eat, Pray, Love” may remember it from both the book and the movie; in the latter, Julia Roberts, as G...

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One of Naples' favourite sons, the late great comic and film director Massimo Troisi, on Monday received a posthumous honorary degree from his home town university. Troisi, who died at 41 in 1994 a few days after wrapping his last great film Il Postino, for which he got two Oscar nominations, graduated in "Discipline of Music and Entertainment, His...

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Sunday gravy may be the most indelible image of Italian-American culture. Sunday gravy – also called Sunday sauce — is a meat and tomato sauce served over pasta and a staple of home cooking in American cities with a large Italian immigrant population. A vat of sauce overflowing with sausage, meatballs, ribs, or whatever else your family told you wa...

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Archaeologists in Italy unearthed a massive hall where an emperor and knights partied some 2,000 years ago. The hall, discovered by researchers at the Università di Napoli L’Orientale in Naples, was located in the seaside home of Vedio Pollione, a Roman knight and politician who lived in the 1st century BCE, according to the school. Located on a cl...

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