“It doesn’t matter if your guests will not buy my gloves, just come and make sure to stay with me at least one hour or don’t come at all”. Over nine years time, this would be the only answer that Mauro Squillace, a 4th generation glove maker in Naples, would give me when I was […]
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 […]
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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; […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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In loving memory of Mauro Squillace, the last Neapolitan glove maker
artigianato, artisan, The last Neapolitan glove maker“It doesn’t matter if your guests will not buy my gloves, just come and make sure to stay with me at least one hour or don’t come at all”. Over nine years time, this would be the only answer that Mauro Squillace, a 4th generation glove maker in Naples, would give me when I was […]
When the Neapolitans moved abroad: the historical evidence exhibited at the Museo Napoli
Art, culture, Museums, Naples culture, Stories of NaplesIf 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 […]
Paper sculpting: the Art of cartapesta in NAPOLI
artisan, Experiences, handicraft, Neapolitan ArtistsThe 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; […]
Pina is Perzechella, from chocolate maker to an artist for love
artisan, Experiences, Neapolitan Artists, Neapolitan handmade chocolate, Neapolitan traditionsHer 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 […]
Rione Sanità, walk underground to fall in love with the neighborhood
culture, Neapolis Sotterrata, Neapolitan historic neighborhoodNot 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 […]