RAI's production center in Naples () is one of four regional television and radio production centers belonging to the Italian

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. The center is located in

Naples Naples ( ; ; ) is the Regions of Italy, regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 908,082 within the city's administrative limits as of 2025, while its Metropolitan City of N ...

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, while the other three production centers are located in

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and

Turin Turin ( , ; ; , then ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is main ...

. Construction began in the late 1950s, and the center was opened on 7 March 1963 by

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Venue and facilities

The center is located on Via Guglielmo Marconi near to San Paolo Stadium, in the

Fuorigrotta Fuorigrotta (; ) is a western suburb of Naples, southern Italy. Covering an area of 6,2 km2, it is the most populated suburb of the city (population: 76.521). Geography It lies beyond the Posillipo hill and has been joined to the main bod ...

district of Naples. The center has six TV studios with a total space of 1,227 square meters and room for 370 spectators. The studios are used to produce television programs, debates, drama series and soap operas which are then broadcast on the broadcaster Rai's channels. The center's largest facility is the ''Auditorium Rai di Napoli'', a concert hall with around 1,000 seats designed by artcitects Renato Avolio De Martino, and Raffaele Contigiani. The hall has a floor area of 800 square meters, and on the stage there is a large

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. Rai has produced and recorded a number of radio and television concerts in the hall, including the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest. After a renovation of the auditorium in the 2000s by the Neapolitan studio Gnosis Architettura, the number of seats was reduced to 600 and the organ was renovated. The center also houses the historical archives of the Canzone Napoletana, the traditional form of music performed in the local

Neapolitan language Neapolitan (autonym: ; ) is a Romance language of the Italo-Romance group spoken in most of continental Southern Italy. It is named after the Kingdom of Naples, which once covered most of the area, and the city of Naples was its capital. On 1 ...

. The archive contains over 50,000 classical Neapolitan songs.

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