Beautiful or ugly, strong-willed or lazy, rich or beggar, resolute or submissive, happy or sad, sweet or austere, mothers or prostitutes. In any case … unique like their city. They are the women of Naples. Here they are interpreted by ...
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Iscrizione al feedThe sardinian Island of Tavolara and the curious legend of the smallest Kingdom of the world
by FdS Editorial Staff The Kingdom of Tavolara was a small state claiming independence in the 19th and 20th centuries in Tavolara Island, off the northeast coast of Sardinia. Ruled by the Bertoleoni family, it was one of the ...
Leggi »Naples through the centuries. Artistic iconography of a city-myth
Naples is everything and the opposite of everything. City–microcosm, it is Beauty and Decay, Misery and Nobility, Humanity and Cynicism, Charm and Dismay. Perhaps for this reason it attracts and repels, today as always. But his image, at least that ...
Leggi »Apulian orecchiette: let’s discover an ancient type of Pasta
Orecchiette are a type of pasta widespread in Apulia and Basilicata (Southern Italy), whose shape is approximately that of small ears, from which it derives its name.Their size is approximately 3/4 of a thumb finger, and appear as a small ...
Leggi »Harps concert from sunrise to sunset by neapolitan ensemble An’Arperc
They are the An’Arperc, an ensemble born in Naples Conservatory “S. Pietro a Majella” in 2004 with the intention of creating an innovative project that could unite the popular tradition with the sweet harmonies of the harp. Here they are ...
Leggi »Aliens. Forty artists exhibit in Lecce the alienating forms of contemporary life
di Redazione FdS APULIA (Italy) – With E-lite Studiogallery, Summer in Lecce is a ‘state of the art affair’. Exclusively in the Baroque capital, the fifth station of the national exhibition project: ‘Aliens. The alienating shapes of Contemporary Art’ ...
Leggi »Hearing the silence. The stricking and authentic Lucania by the milanese photographer Sandro Sansone [VIDEO]
di Redazione FdS It is one of the most amazing video about Lucania ever appeared on the web. It is true that a place, sometimes, can well be described by a sight-seer rather than by those who are daily ...
Leggi »Abruzzo…naturally yours!
Here is a film idea we like a lot: a guy, going by the snows of the high mountains to the sea, while changing the altitude and his experiences and a slogan that immediately evokes the idea of ‘belonging’ to ...
Leggi »An English in Italy: the Amalfi Coast by Paul Cook [VIDEO]
Short video traces of the tour that the British photographer Paul Cook made in the winter 2012 along the Amalfi Coast (Salerno) and Pompeii … Villages such as Pontoon, Amalfi, Ravello, and … Pompeii, there appear in the clear winter ...
Leggi »Capri: Waiting for the storm. A little masterpiece by Umberto D’Aniello and Almartino [VIDEO]
“It is sweet to remember in the port the storms passed away” (Vincenzo Cuoco) Il cielo è mutevole, il vento fustiga a ritmi alterni – ora lenti, ora concitati – le aspre scogliere dell’isola e il mare, sempre più inquieto, ...
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