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Cars may outnumber pedestrians on Merrick Road, but both can now stop for one of Naples’ most popular street foods. Louis Fontana and his wife, Lauren, opened Cuoppo NYC this week at one end of a Merrick strip mall, selling paper cones filled with bite-size, feather-light fried food. “I learned to cook from my family,” said chef Louis Fontana, whos...

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Monopoly ha scelto Napoli per la sua nuova edizione. Dopo il successo della versione Italia ci sarà per la prima volta una edizione dedicata ad una solo città: Napoli. Come riporta Kiss Kiss Napoli, finora solo in Gran Bretagna ci sono state edizioni dedicate a città o località, ma i produttori hanno deciso di estenderlo anche ad altre zone d’Europ...

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Da più di sei secoli, tre volte all’anno, un rito si ripete nella cornice della cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta di Napoli. Un rito che molti cittadini partenopei seguono con il fiato sospeso, dal momento che, secondo la tradizione, al suo esito è legata la buona sorte della città nei mesi a venire. Parliamo, naturalmente, del cosiddetto miracolo...

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When we think about Made in Italy, the first word that comes to our mind is Fashion. It is an important part of the Italian lifestyle, and it represents some of the best talents of we, the Italians. I've been searching for somebody who could explain to us and our readers why is that, and how this influenced the relationship between Italy and the US...

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Italy’s tourist industry fared quite well at Easter, and especially art cities were the undisputed queens of the holiday. They were able to attract the most sizeable number of visitors during the Holy Week. Let’s start with the numbers: according to Federalberghi between Thursday and Easter Monday 2.9 million travellers out of 10 million chose arch...

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Materiali innovativi per l’edilizia e l’ingegneria, in grado di resistere ai terremoti e alla corrosione operata dal tempo. È fatto anche di questo il “ponte” di intelligenze e di ricerca fra le due sponde dell’Atlantico, che ISSNAF vuole promuovere e far crescere. «L’eccellenza italiana non è solo nella moda o nel food, ma anche in mondi meno “sex...

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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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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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