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Mount Vesuvius: Italian Candidate for "7 Wonders of the Natural World"

The volcano represents Campania in a new competition to find the most awe-inspiring natural wonders on the planet.

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Priceless statue found on Naples housing estate

A priceless ancient Roman statue, missing from the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli since the 1930s, has been found in the middle of a flower bed on a housing estate in Fuorigrotta, Naples.

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Vesuvius in Seven Wonders bid

Vesuvius, the volcano overlooking Naples, needs help in its bid to become one of the world's New Seven Wonders of Nature, backers say.

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Stolen racehorse recovered

A valuable Italian racehorse stolen in March has been recovered, police said Thursday

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Pompeii's fresco treasures get revamped home

A stunning collection of frescoes that once adorned the walls of Ancient Roman buildings in Pompeii has gone on show in Naples.

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Fazio downplays fears, woman hospitalised in Naples

New flu will in all likelihood arrive in Italy but it appears to be less aggressive than normal seasonal flu, Welfare Undersecretary Ferruccio Fazio said on Wednesday.

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Moggi says wanted by top club

The man at the centre of Italy's 2006 Calciopoli match-fixing scandal said Friday he had received an offer from ''a major European club''.

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Naples drive to save its mastiff

Naples is spending money to boost the dwindling numbers of its distinctive mastiff, a massive guard dog said to date back to Roman times.

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'Grain king' brutally murdered in Naples with wife

A Neapolitan businessman once known as 'The Grain King' was found beaten to death together with his wife in the exclusive Naples district of Posillipo on Wednesday.

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Naples conference explores spell of Pompeii

The spell Pompeii has cast on writers, artists, historians and travellers over the centuries is the focus of a two-day international conference starting in Naples on Friday.

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