The Neapolitan Street of the Big Screen will be inaugurated on Saturday May 13 at 17 with the laying of the first star, obviously dedicated to Totò, the prince of the laugh of which 50 years have passed since the death. The first famous star in the Parthenopean sauce has the shape of the perimeter of the walls of Castel Sant’Elmo and is made of lava stone on the design of the artistic director Sergio Sivori, creator of Vomero Fest, a series of events scheduled from Friday 12 to Sunday 14 May, marking a fate of anticipation for the Vomero International Film Fest scheduled for spring next year.

The laying of the star to Antonio de Curtis will be preceded by a ceremony with the artistic director Sergio Sivori, the madness of the event, the actress Nunzia Schiano, and with the extraordinary participation of the Fanfare at Horse of the State Police, which will play among the Other songs “Malafemmena”. The fanfare, consisting of twenty-three items directed by the Chief Inspector Silverio Mariani, will perform composite or arranged musical pieces from the current Master-Director who renew the repertoire with music from famous films.

The three days of Vomero Fest are also rich in other art-related appointments, from painting to cinema, from photography to literature, from the history of places, to fashion, to street art, and which will transform Vomero into an event set, ready To receive the upward trend of tourist flows. Castel Sant’Elmo, Certosa di San Martino, Villa Floridiana, Museum of Duke of Martino, cinemas, theaters, churches, parks, squares and streets of the Fifth District of Naples are just a few places where the many initiatives of the event will take place. Vomero Fest, with the organizational direction of Maria Rosaria Picardi, organized with the SerMar Events, is part of the May 2017 Monument initiatives dedicated to Totò.

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On May 15, in the Toledo station of the Naples metro, defined by The Daily Telegraph the most beautiful in Europe, will stage TeatrinGestAzione Out of the order, from 18 to 19, a performative installation by Simona Perchiazzi with 15 players in dialogue with the transit space and the charm of the place. At 18, Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano will open the doors of the monumental hall and the museum to the Dap Jazz duo, the tasting of wines from the Wine Women of Campania and mozzarella di Bufala Campana DOP of the Consortium.

May 16 Wine & Thecity disembark at Vomero boutiques and restaurants of Via Bernini, Piazza Vanvitelli, via Morghen, via Cimarosa and via Kerbaker. The same day, a raid of the Theatre of the Soul, from 11 to 12, will surprise travelers funicular Chiaia from Parco Margherita Via Cimarosa.

Also on 16 May, drink solidarity in La Gloriette, on the hill of Posillipo, with Molino Caputo, pizzas and wines of Ciro Salvo and casa Setaro. In the evening, the church of San Rocco a Chiaia, headquarters of the Foundation Pietà dei Turchini, welcome the reading Drunkenness noir: Marialuisa Firpo and Diego Nuzzo will read aloud the new story that Diana Lama wrote for Wine & Thecity; in combination, the Trento Doc Spumante Morus, top of the range of Cantina Mori Colli Zugna Mori and a tasting sweet and salty by Anna Chiavazzo of The Garden of Geneva.

On May 18, Sessa Palace, home of the Goethe-Institut, will open the door to Wine & Thecity at the presentation of culinary yellow “Crime pink pepper” the writer Brigitte Glaser with a tasting of wines from the vineyard Broom; at 20.30, it will continue to Veritas restaurant in Corso Vittorio Emanuele for a literary dinner and a conversation between the chef Gianluca D’Agostino and the author of the book. May 18 Wine & Thecity will also touch on Corso Vittorio Emanuele bringing the wine in the spaces of co-working 137/A and Crop Studio, NFI and Francesco Squeglia and the small church twentieth-century SS Redeemer, where Don Franco Asti propose an evening conversations, readings, music and tasting of olive oil and wine.

May 19, double date: the Castel dell’Ovo for the exhibition Design for Human Food ADI Campania and via Brin by Eccellenze Campane for an evening of food, wine, art and photography with the participation of Flegrea Photo and writer and astronomer Ciro Discepolo.

The grand finale of the festival on May 20, which will involve the grand staircase of Montesanto and Quartieer Intelligente between street art, swing music, DJ sets and the wines of the Consortium Wines of Sannio: from 19 to 23, the program includes actions Art care of the collective 137A, music and dances with the Swing Tree and Swingin ‘Naples, video wall by Catherina Arciprete and Dj set by dj Cerchietto.

And last but not least, the excitement of this year will be granted a final rush celebrating a year of Fashion & Food, the Salvio Parisi’s blog magazine, Friday, May 22, at the Salone Margherita, which will open the door to Wine & Thecity in a play of light design, fashion and great wines. An extraordinary location for the goodbye to 2016.

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Once the defensive bulwark of the Anjourulers ofNaples, a venue for the elegant receptions of the Aragonese royal family and the stronghold of the Spanuish viceroys, Castel Sant’Elmo now forms a monumental hill side museum complex along with the underlyng San Martino Chartherhouse. It is from here, looking down between the blue sky and blue sea, that stands the squat figure of Castel dell’Ovo, old prison last king of Rome, Romulus Augustulus.On the tiny island of Megaris, where the exhausted Siren Parthenope finally reached the shore, stands one of Naples’ oldest and most beautiful castles.

The castle’s history is entiwined with that of the poet, alchimist and magician Virgil, long considered the protector of the city during Middle Ages. Some claim that the term “Ovo” refers to its oval layout, but Neapolitans believe the other story, according to which Virgil cast a spell on an egg which he then placed in a sealed metal casket and hid in the castle’s deepest dungeons. Opinion differs here as some claim the egg was buried in a niche, others say it was sealed in a glass jug and the walled in but they all agree that the egg holds the key to the fate ofNaples. When an arch collapsed during the reign of Joan I, the queen had to swear that she had replaced the “mysterious” egg in order to prevent the outbreak of panic in the city. Just beyond here Castelnuovo (better known as Maschio Angioino), a beautiful castle.

Built in 1279 by the Charles I of Anjou, founder of the French dynasty inNaples, the castle was the residence of the royal family and the venue for a particularly intense political and cultural court life. In 1294 the castle’s main hall witnessed what Dante called the “grand refusal”, the abdication of the Pope Celestine V on December 13, and the appointment of the successor Boniface VIII on Christmas Eve. Other stories tell of the mysterious disappareance of prisoners from the Fossa del Miglio dungeons and huge crocodile which apparently entered the castle at night, through a trapdoor, to devour prisoners. Some say that Queen Joan used the crocodile to dispose of unwanted lovers. Alfonse of d’Aragon besieged theAnjoucastle and captured it on 12 june 1442 to become the new King of Naples and under Alfonse the magnanimous, the city lived its renaissance.

The short-lived Aragonese reing saw the reconstruction of the castle and the addition of a monumental triumph arch carved in marble above the main entrance. and here we are, finally, in Castel Capuano, where the poet Petrarch stayed in 1370 and also where Queen Joan II is said to have poisoned her lover. On the borders of the kingdom, in Ischia and Bacoli here the last fortress of Parthenope: the Aragonese Castle of Ischia and the Baia Castle Built on an ancient magma “bubble” more than 100 metres high, the magnificent castle in Ischia Ponte and the stone bridge linking it to the mainland were built by Alphonse of Aragon on the same site as Hiero of Syracuse’s 474 BC fortress.The castle incorporates a monastery, the 18^th century baroque church of the Immacolata, the remains of the cathedral where Princess Vittoria Colonna married Ferrante d’Avalos marquis of Pescara in 1509, the Clarisse Convent with its cemetery and stone chairs where the nuns’ bodies were placed to dry and drain and the castle gardens served by a narrow trail dug out of the rock.  Also the Baia Castle was built from Alphonse of Aragon. The first stone being laid in 1495 to defend Pozzuoli from the Moorish pirates. Today it became the Archaeological Museum of the Phlegraean Fields.

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Recall that the german poet lived in the city of Partenope twice, at a distance of a few months in 1787 and his verses give us not only the vivid image of places of incomparable beauty, but most importantly, the character of a people strong and sentimental such as the one in Naples.
It will not be difficult for participants in the rally relive the same transport which the writer felt during his stay in the city of Partenope, especially when the path will lead you through the many prestigious homes in Liberty style, whose peculiarities are the massive use of materials such as wrought iron and glass, the recurring presence of towers and pillars, the widespread use of stucco and decorative floral motifs and ornamental.
It is an artistic movement that spread mainly in Naples between 1900 and 1920 in the neighborhoods of new urbanization, affecting especially the hilly district of Vomero, including via Sanfelice and via Palizzi.
Thus arose in many villas and palaces that today represent an important architectural heritage, in some cases, actually remained unchanged, and that they represent an integral part of the route.
Finally, the day will end with the last stage of the process of cultural history, scheduled in the Church of Santa Maria Apparente at Corso Vittorio Emanuele.
And here also will not miss the opportunity to discover old legends concerning the sacred edifice was told that the attribute of “Apparente” was wanted by the people, after some fishermen, dispersed in the sea in a stormy night, they saw “appear” a light right where stands the Church.

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