This proverb sums up in a few words the spirit and enthusiasm that bring tourists to this wonderful town. One is immediately brought into contact with ancient traditions that only survive because they ...

from #114, vol. 8, in the series "La Ricerca Scientifica", Consiglio nazionale della ricerca, Rome, 1987. (This graph may be of interest to you in connection with the entry on the Geology of the Bay ...

It is not surprising that Mt. Vesuvius is a common symbol of Naples. There have been so many paintings and photos of " 'a muntagna" over the years, it's almost as if artists and weekend snapshooters ...

--fact: there is in Neapolitan dialect a cry for help, "Mamma, li turchi!" (roughly: "Help! Here come the Turks!"). It is still used humorously to express mock terror ...

In the early 1700s the eastern limit of the city of Naples was an actual wall, more or less where the red belfry of the church of the Carmine and the ruins of the old Carmine fortress still stand ...

In Buddhist lore, a white elephant is said to have revealed to the mother of the Buddha that she was going to give birth to the Enlightened One. Thus, in many parts of Asia, the albino elephant is ...

Besides priming Naples for the great age of the Baroque, Don Pedro is widely remembered as the viceroy who tried to institute the Spanish Inquisition in Naples in 1547--and failed. As a simple ...

Don Pedro Alvarez de Toledo was born in 1484 near Salamanca in what was not yet the modern nation state of Spain. By the time of his death in 1553, not only did Spain exist, but the New World was upon ...

They did it again: while I wasn't looking, another fine, small museum in Naples has opened. (The last one was the archaeological display at the Museo entrance to the new metropolitana train line.) ...

In der „New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia“ können Sie einen Artikel über Vittorio Colonna finden. Dichter und -Ehefrau- von Ferrante Francesco d’Avalos. Die Autoren der Enzyklopädie glaubten, es ...

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Vittoria da grande squadra del Napoli di Conte a Empoli (1-0 su rigore) e conferma del primo posto in solitario. Riemergendo da un primo tempo di totale sofferenza, schiacciato in difesa da un Empoli ...