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Mercoledì 11 settembre presso la Feltrinelli di Napoli alle ore 18, c'è stata la presentazione del libro "Storia e letteratura degli italiani negli Stati Uniti: La scena di Little Italy", di Francesco Durante. Storia e letteratura degli italiani negli Stati Uniti è la nuova edizione in più volumi, sensibilmente ampliata e aggiornata, di Italoameri...

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Next time someone tells you to go to hell, don't take it badly. It can be a wonderful trip, and they'll probably want to visit after you. As long, that is, as you go to the Phlegraean Fields, a land of dozing volcanoes, ancient myths, Roman ruins and underwater towns.   It was roamed by Odysseus, Aeneas and the Roman emperors, who turned it...

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Salerno guarda al mercato americano per sviluppare l'export delle proprie aziende enogastronomiche ed incrementare le presenze turistiche, puntando anche e soprattutto sulle eccellenze culturali. In quest'ottica rientra Salerno-New York, un'occasione di sviluppo, il progetto promosso in collaborazione con la Camera di Commercio Italo Americana dell...

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The Gaiola Underwater Park, a stone's throw from downtown Naples, is a protected marine area in the city's gulf, right in front of the Posillipo quarter. The coast there is "the most evocative landscape in the area. It is a steep, tuff cliff where natural and artificial caves and nooks open up.   The remains of a number of Roman villas have...

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Arrivederci, New York! After seven months on the job, Mayor de Blasio is taking a break from City Hall and hitting his ancestral homeland of Italy for a 10-day vacation.   The mayor, his wife, Chirlane McCray, and their kids Chiara, 19, and Dante, 16, are scheduled to depart on July 18 for a multi-city Italian tour sources told the Daily Ne...

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by Massimo Frontera Of the many restoration works currently underway in Italy, some involve complexes of outstanding significance, on which substantial resources are being invested and that could give a significant boost to the country's economy, besides representing a precious heritage for humanity. Here is a selection of 10 of these gems.  ...

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Romance, as chance would have it, is an old tradition here. In the 1880s, Richard Wagner modelled the magical gardens in his opera Parsifal on the grounds of Villa Rufolo, a magnificent 13th-century building that was once home to the Rufolo family, and local legend has it that DH Lawrence penned some of the more salacious chapters of Lady Chatterle...

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A good disaster story never fails to fascinate — and, given that it actually happened,the story of Pompeii especially so. Buried and thus frozen in time by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, the ancient Roman town of 11,000 has provided an object of great historical interest ever since its rediscovery in 1599. Baths, houses, tools and other p...

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Venere.com, the Online Accommodation Specialist, reports that both local and American tourists are increasingly choosing to spend their summer in the smaller, cheaper and less traditionally touristy towns of the Bel Paese. According to Venere.com, Expedia's Rome-based OTA, while reservation growth for Rome and Venice are slowing down as compared t...

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di Claudio Del Frate   Alla fine del 2015 la produzione di pomodori in provincia di Caserta sarà aumentata del 50% rispetto all'anno precedente. Il dato diffuso nei giorni scorsi a livello locale è stato confermato ieri dalle organizzazioni campane degli agricoltori.   Il macroscopico riscontro statistico non è un semplice capriccio s...

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