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In 1948, fashion designer Sonja de Lennart developed the first capri pant. She had designed a line of skirts and belts a few years earlier and named the clothing line after her favorite vacation destination, the island of Capri in Italy. http://kampa...

Giovanni Battista della Porta, the sage of Naples and father figure to Cesi and the other Linceans, made a simple drawing of his own invention and explained that it consisted of one tube with a concave lens inserted into another with a convex lens. I...

The Neapolitan word "crisommole" is used today to refer to apricots. The oldest and most traditional cultivation area is to be found in the territory of Vesuvius. The mildness of the climate and the abundant fertility of the land that, bein...

The taxis on Capri (mostly Fiats and all convertibles) symbolize Capri's welcoming culture. http://kampanika.blogspot.com/2011/04/convertible-taxis.html

The School Ship Amerigo Vespucci was built and fitted out in the Royal Shipyard of Castellammare di Stabia according to a design by Lt. Colonel of the Naval Engineers Francesco Rotundi. http://kampanika.blogspot.com/2011/04/royal-shipyard.html

The history of grand opéra begins with La muette de Portici. The characteristics of the genre include a new degree of magnificence in the sets and sensationally dramatic technical stage effects, the culmination of each act in a large tableau a...

Documented evidence of the San Marzano makes it's first appearance in 1902. Legend from then and still used today declares that due to the San Marzano area's volcanic & rich soil, and due to properties from the Mediterranean climate, San Marzano toma...

Menaica anchovies are fished using an ancient technique that was once widespread throughout the Mediterranean but now continues in just a few isolated places, including the Cilento coast, in particular in Marina di Pisciotta, a small village on the c...

Hazel (Corylus avellana) after Avella [Abella, a town of Campania], where the hazel was largely grown for its nuts. http://kampanika.blogspot.com/2010/11/corylus-avellana.html

Though it consists of simple cinnabar pigment, Pompeian red is really unique. It certainly stands out when compared to normal cinnabar paint layers.http://kampanika.blogspot.com/2010/11/pompeian-red.html

The history of the ancient molossian, to which it is connected the one of the Neapolitan Mastiff, follows the history and the most important phases of the human adventure.http://kampanika.blogspot.com/2010/10/neapolitan-mastiff.html

Salvator Rosa invented new types of painting: allegorical pictures, distinguished by a haunting and melancholy poetry; fanciful portraits of romantic and enigmatic figures; macabre and horrific subjects; philosophical subjects, which bring into paint...

Despite the dazzling harmonic shifts in Gesualdo's fifth and sixth books of madrigals, his music was so extreme that some 20th-century critics and composers believed him to be a proto-serialist, going further than any composer before Schoenberg in mi...

Since centuries, every seven years in Guardia Sanframondi, a small village located upon the Mountain of Benevento area, the whole community says for a week an impressive meaculpa, which involves a thousands of people, in the name of the Assunta (Our ...

At Naples, which was their next stopping-place, Wolfgang played at the Conservatorio alla Pietà before a brilliant gathering, and excited so much astonishment that several of the audience openly declared that his powers were derived from a rin...