JANUARY 2017 THE MONTHLY GUIDE TO WHERE NAPLES COAST&ISLANDS PROJECT IS ENDORSED BY RECOMMENDED BY YOUR CONCIERGE THE ‘RED GOLD’ The fascinating history of coral EPIPHANY IN NAPLES Between sacred and profane ALL YOU CAN DO IN THE CITY SHOPPING | DINING | ENTERTAINMENT | MUSEUMS&ATTRACTIONS Client - McAG Type Area - N/G Initials - GR Outlet - La Reggia Bleed - 3 mm Scale - 100 Ad Type - Press Date - 19–12–2016 Effective DPI - 300 Publication - Where Naples File Name - GL1185_12_AW16_LaReggia_Press_WhereNaples_207x277mm_AW2 Size - 207x277mm 01.17 CONTENTS The Plan The Guide Let's get started The best of Naples, Coast & Islands 2 Editor’s Note 30 4 Hot Dates 16 SHOPPING The hottest dates in January Major shopping areas and our to make your stay in Naples an unforgettable experience choice of the best specialty stores 24 DINING Top restaurants and pizzerias recommended by Where 30 ENTERTAINMENT How to enjoy your stay in 9 Sightseeing Naples and on the Coast & Islands ‘Born in Naples’ Annapatrizia Settembre’s solo exhibition. In partnership with Where Naples 35 MUSEUMS & 10 ATTRACTIONS Also inside Main museum attractions and must-see exhibitions in the city 48 Fashion Outlet and on the Coast & Islands Campania outlet suggested by Where. Shopping. A complete 35 shopping, entertainment and 43 ESSENTIALS relax experience Tips for getting around in Naples, Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplonti and on the Coast&Islands MAP PAGE 44 ON THE COVER Table taken from 'Agata Where Now Smeralda'. Text and illustrations by Letizia 3 NAPLES HOW YOU SAW IT… IN 14 NEAPOLITAN CUISINE Galli, Editor Franco Cosimo Panini 2016 A journey through Neapolitan Tripadvisor’s ranking of the most culture, entirely built on flavors. visited sites of the city Interview with Luciano Pignataro STAY IN TOUCH 10 THE FASCINATING WORLD OF 40 IN NAPLES IT’S BEFANA TIME! www.wherenaples.com ‘RED GOLD’ A journey between sacred and Like us on The history of coral told by someone profane to discover one of the main facebook.com/wherenaples who has made it a reason of living Christian holidays www.pressreader.com SEGNI DI LUCE, PH_ANDREA ESPOSITO Digital magazines wherenaples.com How to enjoy your stay in Naples, Coast&Islands! www.wheretraveler.com 1 WELCOME | Naples, Coast & Islands [ SIGTHSEEING] WHERE NAPLES COAST&ISLANDS PROJECT IS ENDORSED BY WHERE Naples how you saw it...in 2016 SERENA ALTIERI Publisher and Editor-in-chief NAPLES COAST&ISLANDS published by: Tripadvisor’s ranking of the most visited sites of the city in 2016 IES COMUNICAZIONE SRL Via Agostino Depretis, 51 80133 Napoli T/Fax: 081 6174239 www.wherenaples.com COMUNE DI CAPRI PUBLISHER AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Serena Altieri ([email protected]) EDITORIAL (IES COMUNICAZIONE SRL) EDITORIAL COORDINATION COMUNE DI ERCOLANO Ilaria Puglia ([email protected]) EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Nina Jean Sbrizzi CAPPELLA SANSEVERO MUSEUM. Built CARACCIOLO WATERFRONT. The long SAN CARLO THEATRE. The oldest Opera by the Sansevero princes, it hosts the Cristo an wide promenade with views of Mount House in Europe. One of Naples’s crown HAPPY NEW YEAR AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS IN NAPLES AND CAMPANIA! DESIGNER Velato, a wonderful sculpture known all over Vesuvius, which hosts, in the centre of Diaz jewels Elizabeth Jeanette Deleacaes the world. www.museosansevero.it square, the Christmas installation NAlbero. www.teatrosancarlo.it An excellent choice to spend your Christmas holidays in Naples, a riot of CONTRIBUTING WRITERS/EDITORS fireworks: these are used mostly to propitiate the new year, leaving the hard Ilaria Puglia work of the past year behind. Today, like yesterday, the energy and the hope HOTEL PR SERVICES of Neapolitans are all superstitiously concentrated in two rituals: setting Valeria Fusco ([email protected]) off fireworks, and getting rid of old things, which reach their climax on the evening of the 31st, donating to all tourists around the world a wonderful PRINTED BY OFFICINE GRAFICHE FRANCESCO GIANNINI & FIGLI S.P.A. firework show set in the beautiful surrounding frame of the gulf of Naples. via Cisterna dell'Olio 6/B - 80134 Napoli This year, the promenade will be dominated by NAlbero, an engineering www.gianninispa.it creation which looks like a huge Christmas tree, a metal fir tree that stands REG.TRIB. NAPOLI No. 7, 7 FEBRUARY 2014 on the seafront, 45 meters high and illuminates it with 1,300,000 LED lamps. WHERE NAPLES IS DISTRIBUTED FREE AT TOP Symbol of Christmas in Naples and synthesis of the city, very modern while HOTELS AND AT SEVERAL SELECT LOCATIONS. strongly tied to tradition, the installation will be set up until March 2017. It is Where® is also published in Milan by Where Italia SAINT GENNARO’S CATACOMBS. The SAN GREGORIO ARMENO. The street of the NAPLES UNDERGROUND. For a visit in srl and in Rome by Tourist Media srl most important in Southern Italy in size and crib figurines, where it’s Christmas all year the city’s womb. Many rich itineraries of worth it to take a tour, for an aperitif, for dinner with a historical value around. In the heart of the city’s historical fascinating and indescribable beauty spectacular view or simply MORRIS VISITOR PUBLICATIONS www.catacombedinapoli.it center. www.napolisotterranea.org to enjoy one of the most MVP EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN beautiful sceneries in the William S. Morris III world and take photos of PRESIDENT AND CEO William S. Morris IV this fantastic holiday in MANAGING DIRECTOR EUROPE Naples.! Chris Manning Where® Magazine makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of the information it publishes, but cannot be held responsible for any consequences arising from errors or However, before omissions. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in visiting the city, don't part is strictly prohibited. On account of not being able to source the authors of the photos published, our forget to ask your publishing company is at the disposition of anyone wishing to contact it. concierge for our City COMING SOON Map. Where Urban Interactive Those of you wishing to publish your The first touchless favourite photo of Naples should write SANTA CHIARA. It includes a church, a GESÙ NUOVO. Magnificent frescoes but also ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK PAUSILYPON. to us either at guide for travelers monastery and a convent. Do not miss the many sculptures and a beautiful multicolored It is accessible through a Roman tunnel. A [email protected] or on facebook.com/wherenaples wonderful cloister floor. Piazza del Gesù. journey between land and sea on the hill of and we’ll publish it. www.monasterodisantachiara.org Posillipo. wherenaples.com How to enjoy your stay in Naples 2 WHERE NAPLES I COAST&ISLANDS I JANUARY 2017 www.wheretraveler.com 3 WHERE NOW | HOT DATES JANUARY HOT DATES The hottest dates in January chosen by Where® to make your stay in Naples and on the Coast and Islands a truly unforgettable experience UNTIL TUESDAY SIGNS OF LIGHT Solo exhibition by Claudia Meyer promoted by the cultural Institution Art1307 and organized 3 by Cynthia Penna. Of Swiss origin, Claudia Meyer lives and works in Lucerne, Paris and Los Angeles, three cities that have deeply influenced her way of expressing herself and communicating. Her artistic production envelops the viewer in a sensory crescendo, almost as if her art were music. An evocative use of light which illuminates the scene directing the viewer’s eye only towards certain focal points. Villa Di Donato. Piazza S. Eframo Vecchio, Naples. T: 081665456 www.claudiameyer.com PH_ANDREA ESPOSITO 4 WHERE NAPLES I COAST&ISLANDS I JANUARY 2017 www.wheretraveler.com 5 WHERE NOW | HOT DATES TUESDAY WHAT'S ON SPORT FOOTBALL Italian Championship A Series Napoli vs Sampdoria> 8 January Napoli vs Pescara > 15 January Napoli vs Palermo > 29 January Tim Cup 2016-2017 Napoli vs Spezia> 11 Ja Stadio San Paolo. Piazzale Tecchio, Napoli. T: 0812395623 www.sscnapoli.it BASKETBALL National Basketball League B Series Cuore Napoli Basket vs Asd Luiss Roma > 8 January GIOVANNI BLOCK IN Cuore Napoli Basket vs MecSan Maddaloni > 15 January CONCERT Cuore Napoli Basket vs Balletti Park Hotel Viterbo 19 ▲ Born in 1984 and winner of > 29 January numerous awards including, in 2008, the PalaBarbuto. Viale Giochi del Mediterraneo, Napoli. plaque Tenco for Best emerging author, T: 0817622198 Block presents his first album in Neapolitan, www.legapallacanestro.com resulting from a long period of research in WATER POLO A1 Series the Neapolitan underground world aimed UNTIL SUNDAY Carpisa Yamamay Acquachiara vs C.N. Posillipo >14 at establishing a link between ancient and January modern. The work presents collaborations INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE WALL C.N. Posillipo vs Pallanuoto Trieste > 21January with some of the best artists from the Carpisa Yamamay Acquachiara vs Roma Vis Nova Pn ▲ Double solo exhibition by Vincenzo Frattini and Viviana Valla, two emerging Neapolitan independent scenario. > 21 January artists who are already known in the contemporary art world. Drawing their C.C. Napoli vs Pro Recco N e Pn > 28 January roots from analytical painting and from geometrical abstract painting, the Piscina Scandone. Viale Giochi del Mediterraneo, Napoli. Teatro Bellini. Via Conte di Ruvo, 14, Naples. 8 UNTIL SATURDAY works of the two artists reach a perfect balance of colors in simple compositions by using T: 0815702636 T: 0815491266 www.teatrobellini.it unconventional materials and means. www.federnuoto.it MADE IN CULTURE Galleria Nicola Pedana Arte Contemporanea. Piazza Matteotti, 60, Caserta. T: 3926793401 ▲ Art promotes art. Sponsored by the Cultural Prize Elsa Morante, the exhibition, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY www.nicolapedana.com organized by Tjuna Notarbartolo, displays the strong color paintings of the 7 German-Italian artist Mariella Ridda next to the harsh religious sculptures of the Salerno architect Mario Cicalese. A stimulating contrast between fire and earth. Arena Flegrea. Via John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 54, Naples.