Pasta e Piselli pairs pasta with legumes and flavors the dish with a small bit of meat to create a rich and satisfying meal for virtually nothing.

Genovese - a rich onion sauce flavored with meat, it is a classic Neapolitan dish. Think the aromas, flavors and comfort of the Sunday Pot Roast but with a Neapolitan flair.

Saints names are passed down through the generations and when one is given a name they are given the legacy of everyone who took that name before them and of the Saint in whose honor they are named. And each year on the day on which their Saint is honored they celebrate their onomastico.

Commemorated March 8th every year for the past one hundred years, International Women’s Day honors women and their accomplishments and it continues its 100-year-old year old campaign for women’s rights.

A traditional craft that is said to date back to Saint Francis of Assisi’s commissioning of a Nativity scene in the 13th century, Naples elevated this craft into high art.

O Sole Mio has been performed by many, many artists throughout the world. Luciano Pavoratti won a Grammy Award for his rendition in 1980 and went on to sing it with artists such as Bryan Adams and Darren Hayes and his counterparts in the Three Tenors.

Either way, I will go back to doing what I do best, writing about all of the wonderful things that make Napoli “La città piu bella del mondo.”

When we last left off in The Classic tour of Centro Storico (Part 1), we were at Piazza San Gaetano.