Naples
About Naples
Naples is the regional capital of Campania, Italy. With a population of 908,082 within the city's administrative limits, it is the largest city in southern Italy and the third-largest city of Italy after Rome and Milan, while its province-level municipality is the third most populous metropolitan city in Italy with a population of 2,958,410 residents. Its metropolitan area, the seventh most populous in the European Union, stretches beyond the boundaries of the city wall for approximately 30 kilometres. Naples also plays a key role in international diplomacy, being home to NATO's Allied Joint Force Command Naples and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean.
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When Mozart performed in Naples he was 14 years old and rumour had been spreading that he was using magic powers to play, so the audience refused to applaud — they assumed his power was coming from a magic ring. Halfway through his performance he had to stop and take off his ring, and at that point apparently the audience gasped in astonishment and fear while crossing themselves.
from 149: No Such Thing As The Train King Of Europe, 2017-01-28 at 00:25:32 · read transcript
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Please write it. If you're an ocean painter, turn up, please get in touch. No, you're right. Sorry, there were big sites along the way of Naples and the Suez Canal and Sri Lanka and things like that. It sort of moved around you. The this is so cool. The air was blown through a layer of kelp to make it seem like the sea breeze is blowing around you.
464: No Such Thing As An Average Bucket, 2023-02-03 · listen
It doesn't prove the taste thing, does it? No. Should we mention proper, true, true a pizza from Naples? Yeah. Because it's it's very serious in Naples. There is the Associazione Verace Pizza Napolitana and this was set up in 1984 by the 17 most eminent pizza clans in Naples. So. It's not rough on the 18th most eminent pizza clans in Naples. So... Is that rough on the 18th most eminent?
544: No Such Thing As An Accidental Stuffed Crust, 2024-08-15 · listen
Then it turned out no one is very camera friendly and we all like cats but not in that way. Okay we should move on to our final fact and that is my fact which is that when Mozart first performed in Naples he had to stop to take his ring off halfway through because the audience complained it was a magic ring. A magic ring through which he was producing oil at 650 pressures.
149: No Such Thing As The Train King Of Europe, 2017-01-28 · listen
Because he does say he's there's nothing wrong with a decent man, a morally upstanding man reading material like that for the sake of educating themselves. He justifies himself as they did right into the 19th century with the secret room of the British Museum, which contained all the sort of phallic statuary and things that were considered inappropriate for the public. There was a secret museum at Naples and it's exactly the same thing. All the erotic art that was found at Pompeii and Herculaneum.
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149: No Such Thing As The Train King Of Europe put 2 places on the map.
- Talbot Inn · United Kingdom
Coordinates: 40.8358, 14.2486