Impressions of Naples (2015) by Eliza Fraser-Mackenzie
This blog post is based around an image of Naples captured by a young artist, Eliza Fraser-Mackenzie, born and raised in Zimbabwe.
A young artist’s first impressions of Naples, Italy
Category Archives: Other discoveries in Naples
A ‘sagra’ on an old Roman road north of Naples, Italy
Bees swarming at the ‘Sagra delle antiche taverne’
‘Sagre‘, and this was our first, are the right-in-the-thick-of-it festival celebrations that usually revolve around food.
Originally the meaning was linked to churches and the Latin word sacrum – holy. Now they are still about expectation and celebration, but often with a local speciality centre stage rather than the church.
Easter chocolate at ‘Cioccolato Foresta’ in Naples, Italy
Cioccolato Foresta – Gay-Odin, in Chiaia, Naples, Italy
Naples, Italy is famous for many things – but not everyone knows that chocolate is one of them, nor that the city’s champion chocolatier is Gay-Odin.
I first heard the name in an Italian class at the Centro Italiano followed by the words “… molto famoso “.
The Phraser 