Traveling around Naples, Pompeii, and Ercolano: with the Campania Express, you can now take the special train with a 50 minute ride. This special train makes only 2 stops, one at Ercolano-Scavi (Herculaneum) and the other Pompei-Villa dei Misteri (Pompeii), with six different per day.   The train has been started in May 2015 at the stat...

November 24, 2015–January 6, 2016 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art - 1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street), New York, NY 10028 - #MetChristmasTree - Purchase advance tickets to avoid waiting in admission lines. Exhibitions are free with Museum admission. Gallery 305   The Museum continues a longstanding holiday traditio...

Dopo aver vinto due Premi Broadway World Italia 2014 con il musical "America", il musicista e compositore Guido Cataldo si prepara ad una tournée che lo porterà in tutta Italia.   Si comincia proprio a Salerno, con lo spettacolo in programma domenica 25 gennaio, alle ore 18, al Teatro Augusteo.   Read more   Source: http:/...

The American University of Rome and the Sant'Anna Institute-Sorrento Lingue are pleased to announce a partnership. A Memorandum of Agreement was recently signed to signal the two institutions' commitment to work together and provide unique high quality educational experiences in Rome and Sorrento. To launch the partnership Sant'Anna will be offerin...

L'Orto in Campania, uno dei fiori all'occhiello del Centro Commerciale Campania di Marcianise (Caserta), è stato scelto come sede per il workshop dedicato ai formatori del programma Orto in Condotta, organizzato dall'Ufficio Educazione di Slow Food Italia. Dal cinque al sette luglio, 50 educatori provenienti da tutta Italia e dagli Stati Uniti, si...

By Mauro Battocchi   We're lucky to be graced by Pasquale Esposito, an internationally renown Italian tenor who will perform an intimate recital of Italian opera arias and Neapolitan songs in San Francisco on Sunday, October 20th. Mr. Esposito knows California since he studied music at the San Jose University School of Music earlier in his c...

This week our interview tells a story of beauty. Four different beautiful things, actually. The first beauty is the donation of 500,000 $ by the late Italian American Ernest L. Pellegri, one of NIAF's donors. Mr. Pellegri passed away in April 2012 at age 83. He wanted to give back, and – as many other Italian Americans did and do – chose NIAF to be...

by Claudia Baroncelli   If you are planning to pop the question to your sweetheart, but don't know how to do it and (above all) where to do it, you should know that Italy has plenty of romantic places to act as the perfect setting for your proposal. Here are Swide's suggestions.   Perhaps secondo only to your wedding day and the arriv...

di Elena Scarici   Tutto è pronto. I lavori al Duomo di Napoli sono finiti. E tra poco sarà possibile, per napoletani e turisti, godere della splendida vista della città dalla terrazza della Cattedrale. È una delle opere realizzate grazie ai fondi del grande progetto Unesco per il Centro storico: 4 milioni di euro per migliorare la fruizione...

Trained as a pizzaiolo and baker in Naples, Gennaro Lombardi came to America when he was just 14 years old. He settled in the Little Italy section of New York City, and began to bake for a small grocery store on Spring Street. He also started to bake and sell pizzas in the back of the store. Several years later, Gennaro purchased the grocery store...