Hostel Of The Sun: Award-Winning Hostel In The Heart Of Naples, Italy

For the third year running Ercolano and the volcano Vesuvius will be hosting a weekend-long music festival.

The event is a collaboration between the record label FreshFoodMusic and the events organisers Suonivisioni and promises to be two days crammed with music and art expos.

The festival is in the foothills of the volcano Vesuvius,  on the outskrts of the town of Herculaneum, 10 km south of Naples.

So if you want to hear some original Italian (and other…) reggae, dubstep, ska and D&B then this is the weekend for you.

WHEN:  15th and 16th July

WHERE:  Via Vesuvio, Ercolano

WHY:  Music Festival on a Volcano?  WHY NOT!

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Interested in listening to some of traditional Neaoplitan music for FREE?

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Introducing Hostel of the Sun’s new Happy Hour!

Includes: round trip boat ride to Capri Island with a skipper, boat tour around island including the Grotta Azzura, lunch and free bar on the boat.

If you plan on visiting Capri Island this boat tour is definitely the best value for your money. You will be picked up by a skipper on a speed boat and will be provided with lunch and a free bar.

Join a fun guided adventure to the Piscina Mirabilis, the biggest ancient Roman freshwater cistern in Italy. The tour begins with a visit to the “Cisterna” and is followed by a day spent laying on the beautiful and clean Miseno beach.

The ruined city of Pompeii will be hosting ‘Le Lune di Pompei’; a night-tour of lights, sounds and voices inside the city ruined by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. The evenings will be running every weekend from May until the end of October, and every night except Tuesday from the 6th until the 22nd August. Read on here for more information!

The Theatre and Fringe Festivals are in full effect this week in Napoli.  The festival started on June 4th, and will be running through the 28th.  Now in it’s second year, 2009’s Festival is receiving nothing but positive reviews, as the entire city is feeling the excitement and energy that world class theatre brings to “the stage”.   It is not often that quality theatre can be enjoyed at affordable prices.  Tickets for this month’s productions vary from 3-15 euro.  We at Hostel of the Sun strongly encourage you to take a look at the Festival’s website (site is in english or italian) :

http://www.napoliteatrofestival.it

The english option for the site can be found at the lower left hand corner of the homepage.  The Festival also gives information on purchasing tickets, transportation and descriptions of the productions taking place around Napoli.  Truly an international festival, many different languages and genres are being represented.  enjoy!