naples

Taylor Berman · 07/22/14 03:12PM

Bill de Blasio yawns as his son, Dante, drives a boat near the coast of Naples, Italy on Tuesday. [Image via Wall Street Journal]

Hamilton Nolan · 02/07/14 09:43AM

Piles of garbage, city services that don't work, inept local government, horrible financial mismanagement, exploitation by big banks, and now a looming bankruptcy: Naples is the Detroit of Italy. (They both have nice art museums, too!)

That's Rubbish

Brian Moylan · 11/22/10 06:41PM

[A child wades through an alley clogged with trash in Naples today. There are 10,000 tons of garbage on city streets, and the EU is threatening to intervene if Italy can't solve its chronic trash problem. Image via AP]

Secret to Naples' Delicious Pizza: Coffin Wood

Max Read · 05/17/10 09:26PM

Why is Neapolitan pizza so good? Could it be the fresh ingredients? The recipes passed down from generation to generation? The long tradition of pizza-making? Or maybe it's the coffin wood possibly being used to fuel the ovens? [AFP]