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It is a gloomy and rainy Sunday morning in Portici, a densely populated town near Naples. Local priest Don Giorgio Pisano walks the streets to visit his parishioners who are forced to stay in because of the lockdown. He cannot see them in their homes, but he can still talk to them on the Intercom. Don Giorgio knows them all individually. He asks ab...

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Pizza is surely one of the most beloved, best known, and most wide-spread Italian culinary creations. Its most basic variety, Pizza Margherita, created in Naples, is made with just a few quality ingredients: naturally leavened dough, stretched and spun into a circle, topped with San Marzano tomatoes, buffalo mozzarella, a drizzle of extra virgin ol...

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Naples is proud of its tradition of "caffe sospeso", where a customer pays twice for a coffee so that someone less fortunate can have one for free. Now this act of charity is being extended to coronavirus tests. In the southern Italian city, the local health service is struggling to deal with the number of coronavirus cases and, as in many parts of...

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The death of Diego Armando Maradona, on 25 November, has plunged the Italian city Naples into mourning for the football legend who played seven golden years with Napoli, leading the club to two Serie A victories. The Argentine footballer helped Napoli to win its first Serie A league title in 1987, a remarkable feat that saw the team overcome heavyw...

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THE MUSEO STATION OF THE Line 1 of the Naples Metro is one of the line’s many “Art Stations,” but, contrary to the other stops, this one also hosts a special area of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. In this area, called “Stazione Neapolis,” from the ancient name of the city of Naples, there’s a display of the many relics found during t...

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Italy's mass testing programme to track cases of coronavirus is stretching the public health system to its limit. Poor organisation and widespread delays have left many people without tests, especially in poor neighbourhoods. Health authorities cannot cope with the long queues of people asking to get tested. But private tests cost €60 to €80 and ma...

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Come ogni anno a Napoli c’è una pizzeria che realizza un divertente presepe commestibile, interamente fatto di cornicioni di pizza. Si tratta della Pizzeria 900 in via San Pasquale Scura, in cui i soci Dario e Carlo Ambrosino, aiutati dal pizzaiolo che ha realizzato l’opera, Carmine Mauro, hanno inaugurato questa tradizione tempo fa. Un presepe in...

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The almost perfectly preserved remains of two men have been unearthed in an extraordinary discovery in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. The bodies of what are thought to be a wealthy man and his slave, believed to have died as they were fleeing the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79, were found during excavations at a villa in the ou...

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Naples is renowned for its Christmas crib tradition and each year people look forward to seeing who the "new entries" will be - often figures from the world of politics, sport or entertainment. It comes as now surprise, then, that US president-elect Joe Biden is the latest high-profile figure to be honoured by the great Neapolitan tradition, report...

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This story began a long time ago with something typically Italian – Alfa Romeo to be exact. Nigel Carley’s career working for the Italian premium car manufacturer in the UK meant numerous visits to Italy, beginning a life-long affair with this beautiful country – which translates to Il bel paese. Life in the UK continued along with trips to Italy a...

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