Piazza Bellini is a rectangular square along Naples' decumanus maggiore, in the San Lorenzo district. It is one of the busiest in the historic center: by day it is enlivened by students and musicians, in the evening by the tables of the bars...
Porta Capuana is one of the ancient gates of Naples, in the San Lorenzo district, next to Castel Capuano. Built in 1484, it is a white marble arch between two towers: for centuries it has been the city's entrance from the east, and it is what...
The church of Sant'Anna dei Lombardi stands in Piazza Monteoliveto, in the center of Naples. With its sculptures, chapels and sacristies, it is one of the most important testimonies to the Tuscan Renaissance in the city: Benedetto da Maiano,...
The Fontana del Gigante or Fountain of the Giant is a monumental fountain in Naples.
It was designed in the 1600s by Michelangelo Naccherino and Pietro Bernini for the Royal Palace of Naples, where it stood near a colossal ancient statue, and...
The Quadreria dei Girolamini is the picture gallery of the Girolamini complex, in the historic center of Naples. It gathers paintings from the early sixteenth century to the mid-eighteenth, displayed in chronological order in a few rooms on the...
The Decumano or Decumanus Superiore was one of the three main North-South roads (Decumani) in the Ancient Roman city of Naples.
This street is the upper (superiore) and most Northern of the three decumani, or east-west streets, of the grid of...
Mergellina is a corner of Naples, in the Chiaia district, between the seafront and the slopes of Posillipo. A little harbor, a church dug into the tuff, fountains, scenic ramps and a holiday history that begins with the Romans.
The little...
Villa Floridiana is a neoclassical villa with a large park, on the Vomero hill in Naples. Since 1927 it has housed the Duca di Martina National Museum of Ceramics; the garden is a green corner with views over the gulf.
The museum gathers...
The Treasure of San Gennaro is composed of art works and donations collected in seven centuries of Popes, Kings, Emperors, famous and ordinary people, kept in a museum in Naples, Italy. The Treasure is a collection of art works, kept untouched...
The Biblioteca nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III (Victor Emmanuel III National Library) is a national library of Italy. It occupies the eastern wing of the 18th-century Palazzo Reale in Naples, at 1 Piazza del Plebiscito, and has entrances from...
The Catacombs of San Gaudioso are an early Christian underground cemetery (4th–5th century) beneath the basilica of Santa Maria della Sanità, in the Sanità district of Naples. They are famous for a seventeenth-century custom that is a little...
The Palazzo of Monte di Pietà is a historic building located along the lower decumanus (East-West road) of Naples, Italy. The lower decumanus is also known as Spaccanapoli street. It housed the Mount of Piety or Christian bank in...
The Naples Aquarium is inside the Anton Dohrn Zoological Station, in the Villa Comunale, between Via Caracciolo and the Riviera di Chiaia: it is the oldest aquarium in Italy, opened in 1874. You can see the fish, mollusks and plants of the Gulf...
Santa Maria della Pace is a Roman Catholic church attached to a monastery and hospital, located on Via dei Tribunali corner with Via Castel Capuano, just after the piazzetta Sedil Capuano, in Naples, Italy.
The church and the attached Sala...
The Fountain of Neptune, also called the Medina fountain, is a monumental fountain in Piazza Municipio, in front of Palazzo San Giacomo, in Naples. It is an early-seventeenth-century fountain that has traveled more than any other in the city:...
San Giorgio Maggiore is a basilica church located on the corner of Via vicaria Vecchia and Via Duomo, in central Naples, Italy. The apse of the church lies diagonally across the street from San Severo al Pendino.
A church at the site was built...
The church of the Purgatorio ad Arco, or Santa Maria delle Anime del Purgatorio ad Arco is a religious edifice in central Naples, Italy, located on Via dei Tribunali. The church is two blocks west of the church of Santa Maria Maggiore della...
The church of Santa Maria Maggiore della Pietrasanta is a religious edifice in central Naples, Italy on Via Tribunali.
The church was first erected in the early 6th century, and was named a Basilica church. In the 17th century reconstruction...
The Conservatorio di San Pietro a Majella is Naples' music school, in the former Celestine convent next to the church of San Pietro a Majella, in the historic center. Founded in 1808 by merging four old orphan institutes, it holds within its...