The Museo di Capodimonte in Naples is the largest art museum in Italy. Housed inside a former Bourbon Palace in the center of a public park, the museum is full of treasures, but not crowds of tourists.
Read MoreEdgar Degas's first masterpiece "The Bellelli Family" portrays members of his Italian family whose abandoned palace I visited in Capaccio.
Read MoreCappellacci dei Briganti are a unique pasta that are shaped to look like the hats worn by 19th century guerrilla fighters called brigands. Get Chef Joe Cicala's recipe "brigands hats" or try them at his Philadelphia restaurant Brigantessa.
Read MoreTreasure of the Sirens pendants by Rita J. King are inspired by the mythology of the Bay of Naples and the amphora that rest on the seabed from ancient shipwrecks.
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