If you want to take a step back in time, the Bonelli collection offers you a glimpse of Naples that was through over twenty thousand testimonies. Letters, posters, clothes and wonderful objects that are preserved with love in the so-called “wonder room”. “This is the only anthropological collection ever made and is the result of a […]
The Neapolitan artisans who make crib figures are famous all over the world, but not all of us have had the surprise of coming across life-size figures. The characters of the Neapolitan theater like Eduardo De Filippo, overlooking a balcony in Via dei Tribunali and the famous soccer Diego Armando Maradona walking in the street; […]
Her motto is “si vu ‘fa’ e Napule .. ‘nu muorzo!” (if you want to bite Naples) And she prepares chocolate as it once was done, proudly by hand and with lots of love. Pina Andelora (her nickname perzechella means small peach) had a small factory in the historic center of Naples, then it became […]
Not all neighborhoods are the same. Just outside the walls of the historic center of Naples, leaving behind Porta San Gennaro we go to the permanent market of Borgo Vergini. We can pass under the lights that draw in the air the verses of a beautiful love poem “Core analfabeta” (illiterate heart) by Totò. It […]
You can read book free by scratching it by the friend, you can read on a digital device, you can read rubbing pages, drawing notes and maps around the words that we like, that we do not understand, that we would like make ours. Then, there are those who buy books just to smell the […]
Old clothes become works of art for the project “Nuages – morbidi approdi” Going around the Neapolitan markets is a fascinating experience. You will like the contact with the popular soul of the city and the colors of the most beautiful, those Poggioreale and Resin, where you can find everything. Mostly the precious vintage-style clothes […]
It is not uncommon to still find a master like Vincenzo Capasso at work, at Porta San Gennaro, along Via Foria. He’s going to be 90 next year and he works with his hands the mixture of real Neapolitan pizza, with all the energy he has, despite having passed the baton to his nephew Vincenzo […]
Do you have your own collection of sand at home? Glass bottles filled here and there, to remind you of having been lying down in the heat once. Or keep dear in the bookshop “La collezione di sabbia” by Italo Calvino. Good. These are the prerequisites for entering the magical world of “ilfilodipartenope” and meet […]