Journey to Naples: young people relaunch the city

AND The golden moment of Naples, one of the most visited cities in Italy. A strong rebirth that attracts the youngest, Travelers who choose her for her strong identity, for that beauty that flows on the streets and in the eyes of the people. And it also attracts fresh entrepreneurs, with new creative ideas. Perhaps they influenced the success of the TV series Sea outsideElena Ferrante’s novels, Geolier’s songs, or Maradona’s mural. But there are many guys who, in contrast, have decided to return to live and work here, where they were born and raised.

Chef Mimosa Misasi (mimosamilano.com), after conquering the most sophisticated palates of northern Italy with its catering in which it combines high cuisine with simplicity, He dreams of returning to Naples to open an activity. And there are also those who decide not to leave. As Stefania Scognamiglio that turns the forensic career and opens the Bottega Biosté (Bioste.shop) in the center of Chiaiato create and sell organic beauty products. Among those who get involved and do everything to stay in Naples there is also Sabrina Case. Motivated by the passion of its origins, The Spanish neighborhoods, good food, entrepreneurship and love for grandparents, creates the huzzo project (Eppronto.it) Dedicated to traditional cuisine enclosed in ready -made sauces (the Neapolitan ragù and “the Genoese”) that sells online.

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I am always The young people who together with Antonio Loffredo, illuminated parish priest of the church of Santa Maria della Sanità, have created the “Miracle of the Rione Sanità”, an extraordinary experience of urban and social regeneration in one of the most difficult neighborhoods in the historic center. Until ten years ago it was an area to avoid, nobody went there, not even the Neapolitans. Today through culture the neighborhood has started a redemption path that extended to the belly of Naples. Everything started from the recovery of the catacombs of San Gaudioso (access under the main altar of the church of Santa Maria della Sanità), with the restoration of the crypt, and from the catacombs of San Gennaro, which can be visited with the young guides of the La Paranza Cooperative (catacombinapoli.it), together with the Fontanelle cemetery (he will reopen this summer).

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The “health model” leverages an element that is abundant here: churches. And the fate also animates the Cooperative, whose protagonists- another group of friends from 22 to 28 years- intend to contribute to the rebirth of the Sanità district, where the inhabitants still embody the stainless Neapolitan spirit. The boys manage the church of Sant’Astreno to the crucifers, recovered after decades of abandonment, which hosts the Jago Museum (jago.art/en/museum) with the sculptures of one of the most popular contemporary artists on the international scene. In via dei Cristallini was reopened, after 40 years, The church of Santa Maria della Maddalena, with murals of great artists and all repainted by blue by the volunteers of the district. An altar was built in the Falegnameria/Liuteria laboratory of the Prison of Secondigliano with the bow of one of the boats of migrants landed in Lampedusa.

New openings in the heart of Naples

Via dei Cristallini, once traveled by the carriages of kingPopes and Cardinals directed to Capodimonte’s residence was a parade of prestigious buildings and important craft shops, such as those of crystals, from which it takes its name. Today, along the street, new openings stand out – such as Cristallini 78 by Pasquale, minimarket converted in Bistrot Chantant for traditional dishes accompanied by the Bel Canto.

Among those who believed in the rebirth of the Sanità district there is Inès Sellami, who moved from Nice into via dei Cristallini, where together with her husband Vincenzo, she transformed the residence-workshop of the father-in-law, the artist Annibale Oste, into a container of events and cultural exchanges between international artists in charge of Naples. The Atelier Inès (atelierinesgallery.com) has nine design chambers Decorated by unique pieces of art and the laboratory, left as it was, where Vincenzo creates furniture, sculptures and, together with Inès, jewels. Guests can admire works of art and prototypes, molds and models, observe or learn to draw bijoux or sculptures during workshops.

At the same address (via dei Cristallini 138), another unusual and refined place to stay: Casa D’Anna Ai Cristallini (Casadanna.it). Here Alessandra Calise Martuscelliin addition to creating intimate and character rooms, she managed, in agreement with the superintendency, to do Open the (private) hypogeum to the public, rare testimony of the Hellenistic painting and architecture of the 4th century. B.C

The city, which boasts an ancient tourist history, opens further thanks to the initiatives of the Municipality, such as the itineraries (on 24, 26 and 27 April) to discover the women who made great Naples (for reservations write to: [email protected]). “It’s a city that you have to deserve, you have to find what you want to see,” says Stefano Causa, art historian.

Naples, art itineraries

“It’s a city that you have to deserve, you have to find what you want to see,” says Stefano Causa, art historian. In the elegant district of Chiaia, the Plart Foundation (Foundationplart.it) proposes an incredible collection of two thousand design objects displayed in various environments, made with historic plastics: celluloid, plexiglas, nylon, moplen, ant and vinyl. At the end of the visit, it is worth reaching the Grand Hotel Parkers and sipping an aperitif on the terrace that looks towards the city, Gulf and Vesuvius. Art is the best key to (re) see Naples. It happens in the historic center, where next to the mural of Maradona, to the Spanish neighborhoods, visited by thousands of people, Among the many cultural attractions are the galleries of Italy (in via Toledo 177), space dedicated to Neapolitan art (XVII-XX century) and works of the twentieth century. On display Andy Warhol. Triple Elvis (until May 4). The Mother museum He exhibits the works by Anish Kapoor, Jeff Koons, Mimmo Paladino in the permanent collection.

Metropolitan scenic

Spectacular the Naples metro with over 300 site-specific works in the Art stations line 1 and line 6: to see the Taledo stop of the Catalan architect Oscar Tusquets Blanca, with the six -meter tall horse by William Kentridge, on the corner with Piazza Diaz. Among the most recent, the Chiaia stop, designed by Uberto Siola. The subsoil of Naples continues to amaze with the Greek-Roman cisterns of the Lapis Museum (lapismuseum.com) under the complex of the Basilica of S. Maria Maggiore in Pietrasantaand with the Adventure path from the Bourbon gallery (Galoriaborbonica.com) where with helmet and torch you navigate on a raft on the groundwater along a subway never completed. See Naples and then … come back. © RESERVED REPRODUCTION

Where to sleep in Naples

Carolino forumPiazza Dante 52, Naples. In a 1755 building, designed by Luigi Vanvitelli, a large apartment was transformed into a charming B&B, with 5 rooms and two suite that mix period and design furniture. Breakfast of Neapolitan specialties: buffalo mozzarella
And puff pastry. Luxury and courtesy. Double: from 160 euros. Forocarolino.com

Cappuccini palaceCorso Vittorio Emanuele, 730 At the entrance he exhibits a crib of the 18th century. Double from 162 euros. Palazzocappuccini.it

Where to eat

Brigida – Neapolitan cuisineVia Santa Brigida, 49. All well -kept both on the plate and in the service. We are welcomed by Gianluca Amoroso, who returned to Naples for the love of the city and its culinary tradition. Try the gravunara, square spaghettone, extra virgin olive oil, garlic, anchovies, black olives, capers, pine nuts, sultanas and crumble of breadcrumbs.

Casa Vittoria RestaurantPiazza Vittoria, 6. It looks like the living room of a private house. The menu opens with a crunchy sharing pizza. Try the “broken ziti of the Vicidomi pasta sifori in the Genoese” and “The roast artichoke of mom Elena” with a creamy pecorino, a banging thut
And Tarallo crumbled. casavittoriaristorante.it

What to buy

MarinellaRiviera di Chiaia, 287 A tradition linked to when the nobles, heading in a carriage to Real walk in Chiaia, now the municipal villa right in front of the shop, stopped here for reserved purchases. EMARINELLA.EU

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