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52 unusual facts about Naples


Algimantas Liubinskas

Famous results during his second tenure include a 1-1 draw against Germany in Nuremberg, a 1-0 victory over Scotland in Kaunas, and a 1-1 draw in Naples against Italy.

Arcangelo Guglielmelli

Here the final plan recalls the church of Santa Maria dell'Aiuto (where Arcangelo worked under Lazzari in 1672).

Arenaccia

Arenaccia is a historical neighborhood or zona of the Fourth Municipality of northeastern Naples, Italy.

Ascanio Mayone

He trained as a pupil of Giovanni de Macque in Naples, and worked at Santissima Annunziata Maggiore there as organist from 1593 and maestro di cappella from 1621; he was also organist at the royal chapel from 1602.

Baius

Baios (Βάϊος), Odysseus' helmsman, according to tradition buried in a bay near Naples that was named after him Baiae.

Bernardino Realino

He passed his entire career in the ministry in the area of Naples and at Lecce, Italy.

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Subsequently he entered the service of Francesco Ferdinando d'Avalos, viceroy of Sicily, and moved to Naples, where he decided to embark on a religious career and joined the Jesuits.

Borgo Sant'Antonio Abate

The Borgo Sant'Antonio Abate (said Bùvero in Neapolitan) is a neighborhood in Naples, Italy.

Boris Christoff

In following years Christoff appeared in a number of roles at Milan's La Scala, Venice's La Fenice, the Rome Opera, Covent Garden in London, the opera theatres in Naples, Barcelona, Lisbon, Rio de Janeiro, etc.

Charles Tyler

Tyler was specially requested by Nelson for the Cadiz blockade in 1805, and thus participated in the battle of Trafalgar, although not before he was forced to travel to Naples where his son was under arrest for desertion from the navy (out of love for a ballerina) and crippling debts.

Christoph Ludwig Agricola

He spent a great part of his life in travel, visiting England, the Netherlands and France, and residing for a considerable period at Naples.

Cornelio Fabro

For the period of summer-fall 1935 Fabro was on scholarship at the «Stazione Zoologica» of Naples.

Dalbergia melanoxylon

Small growers in Naples, Florida have been successful in growing African blackwood there.

Diocese of Acerno

The Diocese of Acerno was a Roman Catholic diocese based in Acerno near Naples in southern Italy, with the bishop's seat in Acerno Cathedral.

Economy of Naples

The economy is measured on a provincial level; the province of Naples is placed 94th out of the total of 103 provinces in Italy in terms of gross value added.

Edward Foote

After the battle of the Nile, Seahorse was attached to the blockade of Alexandria before transferring to Naples early in 1799.

Enzo de Muro Lomanto

Born Vincenzo De Muro, he studied in Naples, adding "Lomanto" to his name to avoid confusion with another tenor, Bernardo De Muro.

Fifth Municipality of Naples

The Fifth Municipality (In Italian: Quinta Municipalità or Municipalità 5) is one of the ten boroughs in which the Italian city of Naples is divided.

French's

In 1970, the company purchased Widmer Wine Cellars of Naples, New York.

Giovanni Battista Nauclerio

He also helped the main altar for the church of San Diego all'Ospedaletto, the baldacchino in San Pietro ad Aram, and likely aided in the restructuring of Santi Bernardo e Margherita and the church of Santa Maria di Caravaggio.

Giovanni Maria Trabaci

On 1 December 1594 he was appointed tenor at Santissima Annunziata Maggiore in Naples, but already in 1597 he must have been known as an organist and organ expert, because he was invited that year to test the organ of Oratorio dei Filippini.

Henry Swinburne

They then sailed to Naples, and travelled in the Two Sicilies, where they stayed for 1777 and 1778, and for the early months of 1779.

Joseph E. Persico

Following graduation he joined the U.S. Navy where he served as a Lieutenant Junior Grade aboard a minesweeper and also worked at NATO Headquarters Naples, Italy.

Key Waden

Key Waden is a small barrier island between Naples and Marco Island, Florida, United States.

Mergellina

A main square, one block from the harbor, faces the church of Santa Maria del Parto with his elaborate tomb.

Naples, Long Beach

Naples is a neighborhood of Long Beach, California, United States, built on three islands located in Alamitos Bay.

Piazza del Plebiscito

Located very closely to the gulf of Naples, it is bounded on the east by the Royal Palace and on the west by the church of San Francesco di Paola with colonnades extending to both sides.

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Ferdinand I continued the construction but converted the finished product into the church one sees today.

Piedigrotta

A section of the Mergellina quarter of Naples, Italy, so-called for the presence of the Church of the Madonna of Piedigrotta near the entrance to an ancient Roman tunnel.

Pietro Giannone

He opposed the papal influence in Naples, for which he was imprisoned for twelve years until his death.

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Arriving in Naples at the age of eighteen, he devoted himself to the study of law, but his legal pursuits were much surpassed in importance by his literary works.

Pietro Marchitelli

Recognized as a talented violinist and teacher, Marchitelli took the role of first violin in the most prestigious musical institutions in Naples: the Chapel Royal of Naples and the orchestra of the Teatro San Bartolomeo.

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Peter Marchitelli (Villa Santa Maria, 1643 - Naples, 1729) was an Italian violinist, and teacher of Michele Mascitti.

Renato Ruggiero

Ruggiero entered the foreign service following a degree in law from the University of Naples.

Southern Italy

The peninsular territories, contemporaneously called Kingdom of Sicily, but called Kingdom of Naples by modern scholarship, went to Charles II of the House of Anjou, who had likewise been ruling it.

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At his death in 1458, the kingdom was again separated and Naples was inherited by Ferrante, Alfonso's illegitimate son.

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The largest city of Southern Italy is Naples, a name from the Greek that it has historically maintained for centuries.

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Many of the new Hellenic cities became very rich and powerful, like Neapolis (Νεάπολις, Naples, "New City"), Syracuse, Acragas, and Sybaris (Σύβαρις).

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Ferrantino was restored to the throne, but died in 1496, and was succeeded by his uncle, Frederick IV.

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During this period, he also built the Castel del Monte, and in 1224, he founded the University of Naples, now called, after him, Università Federico II.

Teatro di San Carlo

Caffarelli, Farinelli, and Gizziello were products of the local conservatories of Naples

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The Real Teatro di San Carlo (Royal Theatre of Saint Charles), its original name under the Bourbon monarchy but known today as simply the Teatro di San Carlo, is an opera house in Naples, Italy.

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The opera house was commissioned by the Bourbon King Charles VII of Naples (Carlo VII in Italian).

Teatro San Ferdinando

Teatro San Ferdinando is a theatre in Naples, Italy.

Tenth Municipality of Naples

The Tenth Municipality (In Italian: Decima Municipalità or Municipalità 10) is one of the ten boroughs in which the Italian city of Naples is divided.

Teodoro Cottrau

Teodoro Cottrau (Naples, 1827- Naples 1879) was an Italian composer, lyricist, publisher, journalist and politician.

Third Municipality of Naples

The municipality is located in central and northern area of the city, including a large bit of the historical center.

Thomas E. Duff

On March 4 he was wounded and transported to the 70th General Hospital in Naples.

Ugo Savarese

Ugo Savarese (December 2, 1912, Naples - December 19, 1997, Genoa) was an Italian operatic baritone, particularly associated with the Italian repertory.

United Seamen's Service

As an example the center in Naples, Italy was heavily dependent on personnel from the United States Sixth Fleet; during the 1970s, aircraft carriers (such as the USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67), destroyer tenders (such as the USS Grand Canyon (AD-28) and USS Cascade (AD-16), as well as myriad destroyers and patrol gunboats made Naples their home, and sailors found the USS facilities another home away from home.

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Many other centers existed during the years of World War II and thereafter, including centers in Naples and Genoa, Italy; Bandar Mahshahr, Iran; Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam; Alexandria, Egypt and Manila, Philippines.

Z. Z. Hill

Born in Naples, Texas, United States, Hill began his singing career in the late 1950s as part of a gospel group called The Spiritual Five, touring Texas.


2002 Molise earthquake

It lasted for 60 seconds and could be felt distinctly in the centre of Molise, in the Capitanata, the Province of Chieti, and could be perceived in the Marche, Bari, Benevento, Matera, Brindisi, Rome, Naples, Potenza, Salerno, Taranto and Pescara.

641

Arechis I, duke of Benevento (northeast of Naples), dies after a 50-year reign and is succeeded by his son Aiulf I.

Adam de la Halle

At the court of Charles, after Charles became king of Naples, Adam wrote his Jeu de Robin et Marion, the most famous of his works.

Alex Corbisiero

Born 30 August 1988, Alexander Corbisiero is the great grandson of Riccardo Corbisiero, who emigrated from Naples to the United States in 1923 and established Riccardo's – a restaurant well known for its continental cuisine – in Astoria, Queens in the early 1950s.

Anna de' Medici, Archduchess of Austria

For instance, a collection of monodies by Pietro Antonio Giramo, entitled Hospedale degli Infermi d'amore, was dedicated to Anna in Naples in the mid-seventeenth century (the specific date is unknown); it humorously presented the various forms of insanity caused by love.

Avigliano, Basilicata

Later it was expanded by the Normans and was a hunter mansion for Frederick II of Hohenstaufen and a summer residence for the Angevine kings of Naples.

Bresso

At the 2001 census the municipality had a population of 27,132 inhabitants and a population density of 8,027.2 persons/km², making it the most densely populated comune in Italy outside the Province of Naples (although it was only seventh overall, behind Portici, Casavatore, San Giorgio a Cremano, Melito di Napoli, Naples, and Arzano).

Bruno Mussolini

In September, before the Kingdom of Italy invaded the Ethiopian Empire, Air Sergeant Bruno Mussolini, 17, Air Second Lieutenant Vittorio Mussolini, 18, and Air Captain Count Nobile Galeazzo Ciano, 32, sailed from Naples to Africa aboard the MS Saturnia.

Carlo Munier

In this period he performed at several concerts in Naples and published his first compositions, arrangements of La Traviata and I Puritani for two mandolins, mandola and piano, dedicating the last one to the Queen of Italy.

Caterina Gabrielli

In 1767, she created the role of Argene in Josef Mysliveček's opera Il Bellerofonte at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, thereby helping the composer break through to the upper echelon of operatic masters in Italy.

Domenico Battaglia

Other paintings include Inside the choir of San Severino in Naples; Interior of Sacristy of San Martino in Naples, awarded a prize in Parma; and another Interior of Choir of San Severino, Un coretto ; Carmine Giordano, exhibited in Paris; Pergolesi and the Stabat Mater exhibited in London, and a Winter Forest.

Edgardo Saporetti

At the age of 15 years, he traveled to Rome to work under Cesare Mariani, director of the Accademia di San Luca, then moved to Naples where he worked in the studio of Domenico Morelli.

Emilia of Gaeta

In 1027, when Duke Sergius IV was forced to flee Naples, Emilia gave him refuge, for John V was his nephew.

Eugippius

After the latter's death in 482, he took the remains to Naples and founded a monastery on the site of a 1st-century Roman villa, the Castellum Lucullanum (on the site of the later Castel dell'Ovo).

Faiano

Nearest motorway exits are "Pontecagnano" and "Montecorvino Pugliano" on the A3 Motorway Naples-Salerno-Cosenza-Reggio Calabria.

Ferdinand V

Ferdinand II of Aragon, Ferdinand V of Castile, the Catholic king of Castile, Aragon and Naples

Flavio Gioja

Flavio Gioia's birthplace is alternately given as Amalfi, Positano, Naples, or ultimately, Gioia, a town in Puglia, hence the derivation of the reputed surname.

Francesco Netti

He was knighted in the Order of the Crown of Italy, and in 1868, he was awarded the Order of Santi Maurizio e Lazzaro; and finally in 1876, became honorary professor at the Institute of Fine Arts of Naples.

Gilbert Emery

He prepared for college at Naples High School and at the Normal School in Oneonta, New York.

Giuseppe Aprile

He later became a singing instructor in Naples, where Domenico Cimarosa, Michael Kelly and Emma, Lady Hamilton were among his pupils.

Giuseppe Wilson

He was born in Darlington to a Neapolitan woman Lina Di Francesca and Dennis Wilson, a Briton who worked as an iron and steel worker at the local factory, but had met Lina while serving with the British Army.

Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt

Armfelt was also appointed as the Over-Governor of Stockholm, but the new regent was staunchly anti-Gustavian and sent Armfelt to serve as the Swedish ambassador to Naples in order to get rid of him.

Harry Luman Russell

He went to Europe for further study under Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur; first at the University of Berlin, then at the Zoological Station in Naples, and finally at the Pasteur Institute in Paris.

Helidon Gjergji

Among many other exhibitions he has participated at the Venice Biennale 52 (curated by Bonnie Clearwater, Manifesta 8; Present Future, Artissima 10 (Turin), curated by Emma Dexter, the Tirana Biennale 1 (curated by Francesco Bonami); Venice Biennale of Architecture 12 (curated by Gjergj Bakallbashi), Madre, (MCA, Naples); Apexart (NYC); National Gallery (Tirana); Villa Arson; Centre d'Art Contemporain (Nice); Lothringer Dreizehn Kunsthalle (Munich); The Kosova Art Gallery.

History of U.S. Puteolana

A club originally founded in 1975 in the Province of Caserta but had moved to Ponticelli in Naples, moved again in 1986 to Pozzuoli as a means to carry on the older clubs legacy in the city.

International College

Hodges University (formerly known as International College,) in Naples, Florida

Isabella del Balzo

A combination of King Louis XII of France and King Ferdinand II of Aragon had continued the claim of Louis' predecessor, King Charles VIII of France, to Naples and Sicily.

Italian Marxist–Leninist Party

Many cells were created, among them the "J. Stalin" (Forlì), "Red Vesuvio" (Naples), "Mao Zedong" (Milan) and "Mao" (Enna) have headquarters.

Italy national cricket team

The earliest mention of cricket in Italy is of a match played by Admiral Nelson's sailors in Naples in 1793.

John Frederick Bateman

He carried out projects abroad as well, including designing and constructing a drainage and water supply system for Buenos Aires, and water supply schemes for Naples, Constantinople and Colombo.

John Thomas Jones

From Naples the troops sailed for Sicily, and, on the dethronement of the king, garrisoned Messina and Melazzo.

Langobardia Minor

So became subject to the two duchies the entire Adriatic coast between Byzantine strongholds of Ancona in the north and Otranto in the south; the Ionian and the Tyrrhenian, however, only partially fell under the authority of the duke of Benevento, which was never able to permanently occupy Naples, the Salento and the tip of Calabria (south of Cosenza and Crotone), and of course, Rome and its suburbs.

Liutprand, King of the Lombards

The pope, Gregory II, ordered the people to resist and the Byzantine duke of Naples, Exhiliratus, was killed by a mob while trying to carry out the imperial command to destroy all the icons.

Marc Monnier

His father was French, and his mother a Genevese; he received his early education in Naples, he then studied in Paris and Geneva, and he completed his education at Heidelberg and Berlin.

Marxist–Leninist Italian Communist Party

The party is based in Forio, a commune of 14,536 inhabitants in the province in Naples, situated on the island of Ischia.

Mugnano

Mugnano di Napoli, a municipality of the Province of Naples, Campania.

Naples, Maine

Automobile tourists began arriving after designation of the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway in 1919 (identified as United States Route 302 since 1935).

NATO Rapid Deployable Italian Corps

NRDC-IT is operationally led by the Joint Force Command Headquarters in Naples, Brunssum or Lisbon.

Posillipo

Sándor Márai, the author of Embers, lived in Posillipo between 1948 and 1952; his novel "San Gennaro vére" ("Blood of San Gennaro") is set in Naples.

Raymond Berengar of Andria

He returned to there in 1297 with his brothers Philip and John to receive Yolanda, daughter of Peter III of Aragon, and bride of Robert their brother, and escort her on to Naples.

Seventh Municipality of Naples

The Seventh Municipality (In Italian: Settima Municipalità or Municipalità 7) is one of the ten boroughs in which the Italian city of Naples is divided.

Sorrento, Western Australia

It is assumed that the name was taken from the Italian seaside town of Sorrento which is located south of Naples opposite the Isle of Capri.

SS Empire Bairn

Empire Bairn was a member of Convoy NV 7 which sailed from Naples, Italy on 3 November 1943 and arrived at Augusta, Italy on 5 November.

Trent Campbell

While on a road trip to play the Florida Everblades, Campbell was arrested for Grand Theft Auto by Collier County Sheriff's officers after he allegedly stole a taxi outside an upscale Naples, Florida bar.

Veremonda

The opera was first performed at the Nuovo Teatro del Palazzo Reale in Naples on 21 December 1652, to celebrate the Spanish capture of Barcelona, which put an end to the revolt of Catalonia (Naples was also a Spanish possession).

Vincenzo Migliaro

After learning the art of wood carving at courses held by the Società Centrale Operaia Napoletana and working in the studio of Stanislao Lista, Migliaro enrolled in 1875 at the Naples Institute of Fine Arts, where his masters included Domenico Morelli.

Walter V, Count of Brienne

Like his father, he took up arms in the service of Naples, but was captured in an ambush at Gagliano in 1300.