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One of the most important parts of Naples technically has many names, but everyone just calls it Spaccanapoli. Why? Spacca means “to split,” and Spaccanapoli literally splits the historical center in two! The narrow street has its ancient roots in the Greek era of the city. It was one of the original decumani, or east-west streets, from when Naples...

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The wealthy Roman patrician Gaius Antonius lies on the terrace of his magnificent villa high above the Gulf of Naples and looks out at the sea. A slave serves him wine and exquisite food. Just a few days earlier, Antonius had fled the July heat of Rome to his country estate, which lacks nothing in luxury and amenities. The Senate of the Roman Empir...

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Taylor Swift has Cilento roots and would like to come to Italy to "see the places of her roots." That's right, the roots of the American singer-songwriter and actress who fills stadiums all over the world, an absolute star of world showbiz, are also to be found in Castelnuovo Cilento, a small town of 3,000 inhabitants in the province of Salerno. Bu...

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Wine is produced in each of Italy’s twenty regions, and when you take into account that there are more than 300 varietals in use today (the exact number is not known - it could be as high as 600), you can imagine the remarkable variety of Italian wines available, be they white, red, rosato, passito or sparkling.  Everyone who knows a little about t...

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Stripped of that certain glamorous mysticism that makes it a world apart, where Hollywood stars naturally stroll amidst the throngs of daily tourists, each hotel and villa seem to boast a legendary history and even a coffee in the iconic Piazzetta is like a luxury, the most glittering of the Phlegrean islands reveals a reassuring and welcoming simp...

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Cilento is a happy land, rich in nature that often knows how to put on a show, but also full of history and ancient traditions. There are many small villages that are worth visiting, among narrow streets that intertwine with each other and wonderful panoramas that suddenly open up before your eyes. One of these is Orria, a quiet corner of paradise...

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From insalata caprese to perfume ads to images of celebrities vacationing on the Costiera, the 10 square kilometer island of Capri off the Sorrentine Peninsula in Campania has almost unintentionally become one of the places most synonymous with Italy, or at least an Italian summer. Tourists of all shapes and sizes swarm the Marina Grande all season...

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All places have narratives: a back catalog of plot. On the Amalfi Coast, one of the most quintessentially Italian places in Italy, there are stories of the visiting Greeks and the temples they built and filled with lithe sculptures; the Arabs and their colored tile work; the Normans, nervously building watchtowers in case the Saracens turned up; th...

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Once a bustling, blue collar port town, Pompeii’s fate was sealed with the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 7.9 A.D. Today, Pompeii is a UNESCO World Heritage site, one of the most visited sites in Italy and one of the most visited archaeological sites in all the world. Visiting Pompeii? Keep reading to see what life in ancient Rome was like – and pla...

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Cristoforo Ventura has spent the past four decades dutifully tending a memorial he helped create to honor the sacrifice of 38 U.S. Army paratroopers and a Navy nurse killed in Sicily during World War II. Now in his 80s, Ventura remembers playing amid war trenches and bunkers near the site and hearing stories from farmers about fierce fighting betwe...

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