Once upon a time, there was a beautiful little princess who was held prisoner in a forbidding castle that jutted out into the sea. The new ruler of the kingdom, after defeating her brave father in ...

The Naples Academy of Fine Arts is among the oldest academies in Europe. It was founded in 1752 at the behest of Charles III of Bourbon and was situated on the premises of the church of San Carlo alle ...

It is fair to say that as recently as 1970 the number of Muslims in Italy was statistically insignificant, consisting mostly of students, diplomats and businessmen from Muslim countries, all or most ...

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 ...

The solid blue line and stations were complete by March 2000. The short orange section between the museum and Piazza Dante is now open, as wtinessed by the festive multitudes here below. (Dante, ...

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Great physicists of the 20th century had the reputation of being, if not bloated with ego, then aggressive, and if not aggressive, then at least brash in trumpeting their accomplishments. There is ...

If you think you understand what was happening in southern Italy between the coming of the Angevin dynasty in 1200s and its departure in the 1400s, then you really have not been paying attention. And ...

One of the most visited points in Naples is Piazza Plebiscito, the large public square bounded on opposite sides by the Royal Palace and the great church of San Francesco di Paola. At that point, one ...

Technically, the name of this small, new, excellent museum in Succivo (one of the Atellan communities) is the "Museo archaeologico dell'agro atellano." In Italian, "agro" is a cultivated field, as ...

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