About Ciao Napoli

Svevo is the founder of Ciao Napoli. He's been a marketing consultant and Full Stack developer for 25 years and have returned to his home town after a decade spent working and living in London. If you want to find out more about his work and life, you can have a look at his website. Back in Italy, he resumed consulting as a freelancer after starting his accommodation business. When free, he loves spending time with his wife and children, playing guitar, and spending time on his small fishing boat across the bay.

Antonio, known to everyone as Toti, began his career writing about theatre for a national newspaper before becoming a lawyer specialising in cultural rights and intellectual property. He is now among the most respected professionals in Italy in his field and works closely with local institutions as an advisor. Deeply engaged with the cultural life of Naples, he is a trusted guide to its most interesting events. He is also an excellent cook, particularly when it comes to fish, and several recipes on this website owe something to his kitchen.

Andrea works as a public official for the Regione Campania, where he specialises in environmental procedures and structural public funding in the waste management sector. He has travelled extensively across the world - including a true world tour for his honeymoon - and brings a global perspective to everything he does. A passionate walker and history enthusiast, Andrea knows corners of Naples that most Neapolitans have never seen. His curiosity and deep knowledge of the territory make him an invaluable guide to the city’s lesser-known stories.

Yvonne is an Italian photographer and founder/artistic director of Magazzini Fotografici, an independent space in Naples dedicated to contemporary photography. Her work explores photography as a narrative medium, often suspended between memory and the present to reflect on contemporary themes. She has published several monographs and received major awards, including the IPA Award and recognition from the Royal Photographic Society. Since 1998, her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli.

Athos was born in Naples in 1972. A novelist, screenwriter and musician, he has worked as an author and presenter for RadioRai and, since 2001, as Story Editor for the long-running TV series Un posto al sole (RaiTre). His short stories have appeared in Italian anthologies and magazines, and he has published two novels with Bompiani. Curious and sharp-eyed, he brings to Ciao Napoli a deep knowledge of music and culture, and an instinct for the details that often go unnoticed.

Linda Tatafiore is an art historian with over twenty years of experience in cultural heritage, archival research, and the promotion of artists' archives. Her practice spans cataloguing, digitalisation, and cultural mediation. She collaborates with institutions, foundations, curators, and scholars on documentary exhibitions, public programmes, and educational activities, with the aim of making complex cultural heritage accessible to diverse audiences. Her particular focus is on experimental practices at the intersection of visual art, sound, and moving image. She also practises contemporary dance, staying close to one of the performative languages that has most shaped contemporary art.

Rossella's background in art history shapes her approach to hospitality as a cultural experience. A third-level certified sommelier, she brings a deep passion for food and an ongoing curiosity about ingredients and their origins to everything she does.
For over fifteen years she's been designing and curating events and culinary itineraries across Campania, always looking for that sweet spot between a place's flavours and traditions, the craft of gracious hosting, and the pure joy of a great occasion. She is also a Senior Consultant for Lemon Appeal, working at the forefront of regional exploration and the selection of artisan producers and products that best express the identity of this land.

Francesco Continisio is one of the most respected figures in Italian wine. He opened his first enoteca in Naples in 1987, was appointed Provincial Delegate of the Italian Sommelier Association in 1998, and has served as President of the European School of Sommelier since 2011. Over four decades he has guided the wine education of hundreds of sommeliers and brought the culture of serious wine to a city that already took its drinking seriously. He contributes to Ciao Napoli as our guide to wine, bringing an unmatched knowledge of Italian labels and a lifetime spent in the service of serious drinking.

Francesco Manna was born in 1974 in the Rione Sanità, the neighbourhood where his family still lives. Trained in law at the Federico II University of Naples, he has worked as a lawyer, corporate consultant, legal adviser, regional chief of staff, and director of both public and private companies. Since 2013 he has been a senior manager at Eni, heading local public affairs for Italy. A lifelong Neapolitan football supporter, raised on the curva B of the old San Paolo, and a serious reader, he describes himself as a Napolide (a Neapolitan who has lived elsewhere, without ever really leaving): long periods in Argentina and across Italy, always with Naples as his true coordinate.