Silicon Valley comes to Naples: Apple prepares to open Italian academy

With 200 pupils set to start training, the mood is high in the unlikely suburb chosen for tech giant's latest venture

San Giovanni a Teduccio, a downtrodden suburb of Naples, is a far cry from Silicon Valley.

The crumbling apartment buildings, the walls covered in either graffiti or church death notices, and the ubiquitous clotheslines hung outside people's windows do not leave the impression that the neighbourhood is a centre for high technology.