Staying in Naples for 4 days, my husband and I rented a car to visit Mt. Vesuivius, Pompeii, Sorrento, and the Amalfi Coast. Each of these areas of southern Italy is just amazing and only a very
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Staying in Naples for 4 days, my husband and I rented a car to visit Mt. Vesuivius, Pompeii, Sorrento, and the Amalfi Coast. Each of these areas of southern Italy is just amazing... More
With streets lined by lemon and orange trees, picturesque Sorrento is a great stopover en-route to the Amalfi Coast, Pompeii, Capri, or Naples. Beautiful cliffside views, Southern... More
Starting with the first European performance of Kenny Wheeler Strings Projects, With Kenny Wheeeler, one of the greatest living trumpeters, recently nominated for a Grammy Award....more
See the minerals from Vesuvio-Monte Somma (Vesuvius and Mount Somma and Permian reptiles (250,000,000 years old) like the ‘Mesosaur’, and the ‘Notosaur’. Among the other specimens on display are two ‘Dinosaur Eggs.’...more
From time immemorial Sorrento has exercised a particular charm which has attracted poets and literary men like Goethe, Lamartine, Stendhal, De Bouchard, Byron to D’Annunzio, Ibsen, Douglas, musicians like Rossini, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Wagner, painters like Pinelli, Fernet, Lindstrom, photographers like De Luca and the brothers Alinari, directors like De Sica, Gallone and Mastronardo....more
The sausage and the salami made of pig meat and orange peel, and the wonderful cheese products, such as the burrini, caciottine (little cacciotta cheese) staffed with a delicate butter puree, the caprignetti, small little balls obtained by a cheese cream, called caprino (cacio ricotta) that, after being sprinkled with aromatic herbs, they are preserved in oil....more