O dolce Napoli!
Blog posts
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San-Montano Bay – Ischia Island
I was travelling to Ischia several times during my Erasmus and it felt myself just like in paradise. One of the best impressions was the visit of the Negombo thermal baths. This small oasis is situated in the stunning bay called San-Montano. Ischia is famous for its...
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Neapolitan recipe: Pasta Calamarata
Apart from the stories and advices about beautiful Naples, I like to explore the new cuisine. So I would like to share with you some recipes which I knew from the native Neapolitans. Today it will be Pasta Calamarata with seafood. It’s so easy to cook and sauce is...
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True meaning of “Happy Hour” in Naples
“Aperitivo” time in Italy is a special ritual and it’s hard to resist doesn’t matter if it is a weekend or the working days. This tradition has the origins of northern Italy and captivated the Neapolitans immediately. Nowadays Naples is full of marvelous places...
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Neapolitan coffee traditions
“One coffee please! ” – is the usual request to order the cup of coffee. “Which one would you like to drink? ” – is the typical waiter’s answer almost in every country. But not in Italy, especially not in Naples! In this city you should be more precise...
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Popular cold cuts in Naples
The highest quality meat platters you can find in Neapolitan salumeria. It’s kind of difficult to describe this food branch, because you will hardly get if it’s a café or a shop. Let’s imagine that you would like to have a fast snack in your lunchtime or to buy...
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Visiting winery in the suburbs of Naples
Winery is the magic place, where grape transforms into the wine. I was lucky to visit one of the wineries in Campania regions, something like 1,5 hours away from Naples. Before I couldn’t imagine that wine keeping has so many rules to follow: The room should not have...
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Main parks of Naples
In the territory of Campania region, the main color is certainly green- there are lots of seedling beds, luxury vineyards, southern superlative trees, which stimulate to breath deeper and create special emotions inside. At first side that can’t be said about Naples,...
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Variety of lemons in Campania
Let’s add some vitamin C to our blog? When coming to Campania, be ready for wealth of lemons in every cornet, from light green to bright golden tone color. This is because the most famous world lemon plantations are situated exactly in Amalfi and Sorrento costs. We...
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Italian Vespa: let’s ride a bee!
Lots of small Italian joys in just one photo! Juiced jerked meat, which makes your mounth waterm the rang of sweet liquors for every taste, grape-vine on the wall.. and of course, Vespa, beautiful scooter known as Italian stereotype, but so awesome because of stylish...
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Baba - famous neapolitan dessert
For most of European people this dessert is not new: the majority of Russians sure that they invented rum baba; ask Neapolitans - and they will convince you that baba is a typical south Italian delicacy. But the legend says that this dessert has the polish routes and...
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Best places for ice cream degustation in Naples
Ice cream seems to be a seasonal joy, but in Italy it’s to tasty and the winter are not so cold. So, the doors of gelaterias are always opened! To find the good place for ice cream you simply need to go out of your apartments and make some steps…But to feel a...
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Italian vacation habits
«Even God goes on vacation in August» - wrote Gabriel Garcia Marquez and was so close to truth! One of the most popular questions asked by Italians is “where will you spend your summer holidays?”, where the meaning of “summer vacation” is “August...
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How to prepare Neapolitan pizza: Brief instruction
Do you know the first rule of a good pizza? The client has to see the preparation process by his own eyes. This performance definitely worth your attention – pizza maker pushes and batters the peace of paste to make it round-shaped. It happens so intensively that from...
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Naples: Transport issues
Every tourist or Erasmus student at least once can clash with the problem of Campanian transport system. It’s really quite difficult to handle it! Let’s see which problems may appear: I bought a ticket for my train, but a controller said that it’s not applicable...
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Neapolitan recipe: zeppole
Zeppole di San Giuseppe are easy to recognize by the bright cherry and powdered sugar! Here is a recipe of famous Neapolitan dessert. Ingredients: For the dough: 200 g flour; 80 g butter; 60 g sugar; 2 cups of water; 4 eggs; 1 package of baking powder; A pinch of...
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Neapolitan recipe: limoncello
What was the first drink I tried when I came to Italy? Of course, limoncello! It is a great drink for guests and gift for friends. My curiosity about the possibility to prepare it on my own gave results! Ingredients: 10 raw lemons; 300 g twist of lemon; 1 liter...
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Neapolitan holidays: Easter
In Russia we used to celebrate orthodox Easter, that’s why in my Erasmus period I celebrated two Easters: orthodox and catholic. Usually catholic ones happen 1-2 weeks before the orthodox, just one time in 19 years are congruent. Neapolitan cuisine surprises as...
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Refresh yourself in Naples!
Southern Italy is probably the most tasty and caloric place in the world and it’ possible to discuss pizza and pasta recipes for ages. But for now, let’s remember that’s Italy is also a country of fruits and vegetables so it is possible to kip fit here as well!...
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Olive oil: Golden liquid of Campania
Doesn’t matter what if we bake something or just cut the vegetables for salads, we hardly can cook it without oil. According to statistics, every year more and more families start to use olive oil in cooking process as the healthiest, tastiest and of the highest...
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Metro arts in Naples
Which associations do you have with the word “metropolitan”? For megapolis habitants like me it’s definitely not the best. The worst relation which comes in mind is a rush hour which happens every weekday morning and evening in Saint-Petersburg and Moscow. On the...