Important cooperation agreements were signed between Naples and San Francisco in the fields of human rights, technology, and science this past Friday, October 25th. Creating new cooperation programs between Neapolitan and San Franciscan organizations, these agreements were penned in the presence of Naples' Mayor Luigi de Magistris at the Italian C...

NOVEMBER 30, 2015 06:00 PM - Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò - 24 West 12th Street - New York, NY 10011 In collaboration with Napoli Film Festival. All the films are in ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles.   BELLISSIMA [Beautiful]Directed by Alessandro CapitaniWinner of Best Actress (Giusy Lodi)(2015, Italy, 12 min.)Veronica is twenty and...

Premier Exhibitions, Inc. PRXI +0.68% , a leading presenter of museum quality touring exhibitions, announced today that it has added an eighth concept to its touring exhibition portfolio. In partnership with the Italian Superintendence for Archaeological Heritage of Naples and Pompeii (SANP), Premier Exhibitions, Inc. has developed a new exhibition...

Dalla Campania, dilaniata dai roghi tossici e dagli scarichi abusivi, muove la proposta di Legambiente di restituire dignità al futuro partendo dal nostro patrimonio culturale con Paestumanità, un'iniziativa finalizzata a rilanciare il sito archeologico di Poseidonia-Paestum, colonia greca in provincia di Salerno, coinvolgendo la comunità internazi...

The Casa Rossa (or Red House) in Anacapri, in the province of Naples, peaks through the memories recorded by Alberto Savinio – a master of Italian literature, although he was born in Athens, Greece – in what became the “Capri” collection, published in 1988 by Adelphi.   “Gray sky. Great clouds sweep the top of Mount Solaro. On the road that...

by Jillian Jorgensen   Mayor Bill de Blasio was unable to keep a meeting with the mayor of a small Italian city Wednesday -- so City Council Minority Leader Vincent Ignizio, perhaps the city's second-highest ranking Italian-American, welcomed the visitor to his office. "I couldn't give up on the opportunity when I saw the mayor," Ignizi...

Renowned photographer Joe Marvullo is widely recognized as a leader in the ever-changing realm of images and design. His styles were both highly charged with color dynamics in his well-concentrated studies of destinations and in his more subtle romantic atmospherics of moods with a feeling of place in exotic locales.   Born in the Bronx, in...

by Chiara Beghelli   After an extremely hot day, the freshness of summer evenings it's a real pleasure. Even more if you are in the Gulf of Naples and can enjoy a visit to some of its most beautiful places. Wait for the sunset and you will have the choice between an archaelogy or music-inspired soiree.   At sunset, indeed, special vis...

A new way to read the Herculaneum papyruses has been introduced by an Italian physicist: the X-ray technique will allow users to read the papyruses, which still exist besides the Vesuvius eruption of 79 AD.   The techniques in new in the way viewers can virtually 'unroll' and read the papyruses from the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum, a 25-...

di Alessia Marsigalia   La chiamano la "Pompei del 900" anche se il suo vero nome è Roscigno Vecchia, uno dei cosiddetti "paesi fantasma" d'Italia, dopo che nel 1902 fu investito da una frana. Oggi, grazie ad un gruppo di italo-americani, che avevano antenati in queste zone e che hanno costituito la Roscigno Vecchia Foundation, questo borgo...