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Palazzo Zevallos-Stigliano and the Last Caravaggio
Palazzo Zevallos-Stigliano, the site of the main Intesa Bank on via Toledo has a remarkable history, both architecturally and culturally. You'd really need one of those H.G. ...
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Naples Miscellany 12 (early April 2009)
—The Totò Theater (photo) is alive and well. It opened in May, 1996, on the premises of—and after totally refurbishing—the old Ausonia cinema, (perhaps putting the brakes ...
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The Friendly Neapolitan Street Scam
It’s a good scam—totally non-violent and even friendly. And it’s not out to steal all your money and leave you destitute the way phone fraud, ID theft and letters from friendly ...
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The National Library of Naples
A national library in Italy is one designated by the government as one that contains items of importance to the entire nation in a vast array of disciples—science, literature, ...
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The Aselmeyer Castle
You will gather that none of Young’s grandiose plans from the 1880s— not the
metropolitana
, not the Venice Quarter, not the grand seaside resort in Bagnoli—none of ...
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Community Libraries in Naples
The tradition of the small community library is not a long one in Naples. I remember years ago being amazed by the enormous National Library here and also by the presence ...
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The Italian Institute for Historical Studies
In an age of modern public universities and libraries, it is easy to forget how important smaller private institutes and academies have been in European history. Early modern ...
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The Sails of Scampia
I think there must be a kind of “Field of Dreams” mentality among architects—or, at least, among the politicans who hire architects. Recall that in the 1989 fantasy film of ...
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New trains and old Olympics
The somewhat less than irresistible force of underground train construction in Naples has once again run into the immoveable (but not indestructible) object of an ancient ...
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Edenlandia
Edenlandia is the largest amusement park—or “fun fair”—in Naples and one of the best-known such attractions in Italy.
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