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Praiano / The aedicule votive
Thursday 5 May 2011
Many “votive aedicule”, small miniature chapels in majolica or directly painted on the walls, decorate and colour the streets in Praiano, a jewel of the Amalfi coast.
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Irpinia / Stay in a Convent
Tuesday 3 May 2011
The Sanctuary of Montevergine offers hospitality in the guestrooms to groups or single people, who can take part in the cultural program organized by the monks and taste the excellent honey and famous herbal liquors.
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Art / The Sorrento intarsio
Tuesday 3 May 2011
Wood processing in Campania has ancient origins and traditions: the Sorrento intarsio deserves a separate mention.
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Legends / The Mermaids Songs
Monday 2 May 2011
The archipelago of the Sirenuse (current day Li Galli) in front of Positano, made up by three small rocky islands, was the venue of the legendary mermaids that used to fascinate seagoesrs with their songs, causing their shipwreck.
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Places / Totò and Eduardo, Poets of the Sanità
Monday 2 May 2011
“I’m from the rione Sanità, the most famous in Naples”, loved to state Totò, who was born in this quarter in 1898.
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Napoli / The Quartieri Spagnoli
Friday 29 April 2011
Traced in the 16th century on a chessboard framework with small lots to host the Spanish garrisons and their families, it soon became an entertaining area for soldier in search of women, games and good food
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Cilento / High altitude
Thursday 28 April 2011
The Monte Cervati in the Cilento and Vallo di Diano park with its 1852 meters, is the highest mountainh in Campania.
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Architectures / Against the Saracens
Sunday 24 April 2011
The Cilento coast is full of watch-towers, evidence of a past made of incursions and raids by the Saracens, who, starting from the 9th century A.C., raged the Tyrrhenian.
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Gesualdo / Sanguinary Madrigalist
Friday 22 April 2011
Carlo Gesualdo, the prince of musicians, the greatest Italian madrigalist, is renowned also for another reason: in 1590, he killed his beautiful wife Maria d’Avalos and her lover, caught red-handed in their Neapolitan residence in piazza San Domenico Maggiore.
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Eruptions / Crater in a few hours
Friday 18 March 2011
Montenuovo, 5 centuries of life, is the youngest crater in Europe, the last of the numerous vulcanos of the Phlegrean Fields.
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