The Statue of the Nile is back and restored
Friday, 13 November 2015
From November 15, 2014 Napoli’s “body” is back . The famous statue of the god Nile, called the Body of Naples, was returned to the city after a restoration done at the expense of citizens. More than 2200 people have, in fact, participated in fundraising to restore the city’s famous statue. The celebration started with
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Music for Museums in Naples
Friday, 13 November 2015
Music for Museums in Naples, classical music concerts in the city museums “Music X Museums” comes back this year aimed at giving space to the music in the beautiful frames of ten museums in southern Italy and particularly in two Neapolitan museums, the National Archaeological Museum and the Royal Palace The initiative will run until
Excavations new opening
Thursday, 12 November 2015
Until the Sixties Rione Terra was still the lively center of the city; over the centuries the new buildings had created a stratification covering the Roman city. The underground archaeological path through the Roman excavations of Rione Terra, closed since 2009, has now been reopened, bringing to light the ancient fortress of a city that
The Jewels of the vault
Thursday, 12 November 2015
The Archaeological Museum showcases one hundred masterpieces have never been exhibited and stored from a long time in the warehouses. Statues and busts of Roman times, coming from Herculaneum, Pompeii, Cuma, Pozzuoli and Baia, now return to see the light and will be exhibited in an architectural glass and plexiglass furniture placed in the northern
Majolicas of the King
Thursday, 12 November 2015
Following the recent donation Droandi Carafa, the Museum of San Martino is displaying a selection of testimonials and personal memories of the Carafa family. The rich collection consists of fans, album of drawings, miniatures, majolica plates, but above all drawings and projects for dishes both for diplay and for service, designed and made by Pompeo
From Darkness to Light
Thursday, 05 November 2015
The halls of the Royal Palace of Quisisana in Castellammare di Stabia host the exhibition “From darkness to light.” They display artifacts from the country villas of ager stabianus and luxurious domus built on the hill of Varano, explored for the first time in the eighteenth century and finally brought to light only in 1950.In
Exhibition Pompei e l’Europa 1748-1943
Wednesday, 04 November 2015
An exhibition that evokes the history of the Vesuvian city in a constant comparison between the art and the excavations, a dialogue between archaeologists, art historians, architecture and literature, called to tell the rediscovery of Pompeii. The exhibition, placed in a wooden pyramid structure, designed by Francesco Venezia within the ‘amphitheater, evokes the history of
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