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Demographics of Naples I don't know if I trust all of these figures since, as they say, 47% of statistics are made up on the spot. For example, if there are only 50,000 extracomunitari (those from ...
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Maritime Museums I’m surprised that Amalfi has no naval museum, nothing to remind us that Amalfi was one of the four maritime republics of medieval Italy. That fact is recalled by the presence ...
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The Café-chantant in Naples The Belle Époque, a café-chantant, Fin de siècle and Thou (or Elvira Donnarumma) beside me, singing in the Salone Margherita.

Today, ...
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The Alifana Railway If you stand at Piazza Carlo III in Naples, in front of the old Albergo dei Poveri (the massive Bourbon “Hospice for the Poor”—the Royal Poor House) and look across the street, ...
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Keeping Up With the Joans 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 ...
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Herculaneum "...…And now high and far into the dawning skies broke the fragrant fire..." As far as I know, no one has ever written a book or made any movies about the last days of Herculaneum. The line cited above is from Edward George Bulwer-Lytton's 1834 novel, ...
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Poggioreale--Paradise Lost I mean, really lost It is perfectly reasonable to expect any large European city to change over the course of four-hundred years. Yet, in the case of Naples, many of the physical features of ...
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The Future of Bagnoli Or Lamont Young's Revenge I suppose if Bagnoli had won its bid to host the 2007 America's Cup, a splendid new harbor in Bagnoli would be well on its way to completion, and that blighted section of ...
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Santa Maria di Portosalvo The only structure vaguely recognizable today on the 1633 Stopendael map (second photo, right) of the port of Naples is the large
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The Founder of the Knights Templar or Welcome to Nocera Inferiore, or If you were confused by The Da Vinci Code, this won't help Even the authoritative--if highly opinionated--Catholic encyclopedia at newadvent.org seems unsure about this, so you're in good company. On the one hand, they follow the ...
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