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Today we tell about an ancient Neapolitan legend. Have you ever heard about the golden fly of Porta Capuana? The city of Naples has always had a difficult relationship with insects and flies. Even though Neapolitan population still preserves an interdependent...

Naples has two different identities, the one that shows and the one that hides. In today's article, we talk about Napoli Sotterrata, with its tunnels and its galleries. Some cities in the world enjoy a glorious past and a history rich with events and traditions, whose...

Naples can be described as a patchwork of many small legends accurately lined up. Almost every aspect of the Neapolitan cult seems to find its origin in a bizarre story: the legend of macaroni, we are about to talk in today's article, is obviously one of them. That...

Behind the Naples famous for the sun, the sea and the mandolin there is also an underlying dark city, made of darkness, esotericism and stories about mysticism. The legend of Janara has precisely its origins in that world of occultism. Neapolitan inhabitants hear...

Sacred but also profane rituals characterize Naples. Today we are going to talk about the cult of Mithra in Naples and the link between the city and esotericism. As the great number of churches shows, the city of Naples establishes a strong connection with...

In Neapolitan iconography, the representation of one fruit, more than others, has a very important place. Today we try to examine the relationship between that fruit, the pomegranate, and the city of Naples, a very ancient cult whose origins are not well known, yet....

It is not common knowledge that the city of Neapolis came into contacts with the most ancient civilizations, even with the Egyptian one. Neapolitans and Egyptians have in fact, to a more careful eye, a lot in common. The city of Magna Grecia borrowed many things from...

Many legends try to explain the birth of Naples. Very often, however, its origin is dated back to the myth of Parthenope and Ulysses, a love story that is a bit complex and certainly dramatic.As we had also seen in some previous articles, Naples is still linked to...

Some recipes are an essential foundation of Neapolitan cooking tradition. This is the case of the ragù, considered by the inhabitants of Naples the eighth wonder of the world. As an integral part of Campania's culinary tradition, ragout sauce has often been the...

Naples has been the scene of numerous natural disasters, over the years. The precious testimony of Petrarca makes us almost passive spectators of the dramatic tsunami of 1343. In addition to the famous eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D., an equally dramatic event marked...