Ascione Coral Museum
The Coral and Cameos Jewellery Museum Ascione lies in Naples in Galleria Umberto I opposite the opera-Teatro di San Carlo and near the Royal Palace of Naples. At the same place another museum can be found as a tribute to the past generations...
National Railway Museum of Pietrarsa
The Pietrarsa National Railway Museum is the great museum of Italian trains, in a former locomotive factory on the sea between Naples, Portici and San Giorgio a Cremano. Seven pavilions, about 36,000 square meters, with steam, electric and diesel...
Basilica of the Incoronata Madre del Buon Consiglio
The Basilica of the Incoronata Madre del Buon Consiglio is a large twentieth-century church in Capodimonte, Naples, built on the model of St. Peter's in Rome: same dome, same façade, same interiors. Neapolitans call it "the little St. Peter's"...
Basilica of San Gennaro Outside the Walls
San Gennaro extra Moenia ("San Gennaro Beyond the Walls") is a church located in the Rione Sanita on the large road that leads up to the Capodimonte museum and is an example of so-called paleo-Christian architecture in the city.
The...
Basilica of San Pietro ad Aram
The Basilica of San Pietro ad Aram is located about a block from the church of the Santissima Annunziata on Corso Umberto I.
It is said to host the altar upon which St Peter preached while in Naples, and here he baptized the first...
Basilica Sanctuary of the Gesù Vecchio dell'Immacolata di Don Placido
Church of Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini
The Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini (Most Holy Trinity of Pilgrims) is a church on via Portamedina in the historic city centre of Naples, Italy
The church building and the eponymous hospital was founded in the sixteenth century by Fabrizio...
Church of San Biagio Maggiore
The church of San Biagio Maggiore is a small former religious edifice located in the city center of Naples, Italy, at the intersection of Via San Biagio dei Librai and Via San Gregorio Armeno. It is adjacent and for many years integral to the...
Church of San Carlo all'Arena
San Carlo all'Arena is a Roman Catholic church built in a Baroque-style layout with a Neoclassic façade, and located on via Foria in the quartiere or neighborhood of the San Carlo all'Arena, in the city of Naples, Italy.
Originally a church...
Church of San Giuseppe delle Scalze in Pontecorvo
San Giuseppe delle Scalze a Pontecorvo is a church, located in Salita Pontecorvo, in the historical center of Naples, Italy.
The church was built in 1619 in the site where the Palazzo Spinelli a Pontecorvo stood, and was rebuilt in 1643 and...
Church of San Michele Arcangelo
San Michele Arcangelo or San Michele a Port'Alba is one of four major churches facing Piazza Dante in Naples, Italy. It stands near Port'Alba, a city gate opening to the piazza.
Construction of the church, originally called Santa Maria della...
Church of San Nicola alla Carità
The church of St. Nicholas the Charitable (it: Chiesa di San Nicola alla Carità) is a church located on via Toledo, almost midway between Piazza Carità and Piazza Dante in Naples, Italy.
The church was founded in 1647, thanks to a...
Church of Santa Maria della Catena
Santa Maria della Catena or Santa Maria del Porto is a church in Borgo Santa Lucia of Naples, Italy.
The church was founded in 1576 by the inhabitants of the quartiere, and dedicated to the Madonna della Catena, an important Marian cult in...
Church of Santa Maria Egiziaca in Forcella
Santa Maria Egiziaca a Forcella (or church of Santa Maria Egiziaca all'Olmo) is a Baroque style church in Naples, Italy; located in the quartiere di Forcella.
The church was founded in 1342 under the patronage of Queen Sancha of Aragon. The...
Church of Santa Teresa degli Scalzi
The Church of Santa Teresa degli Scalzi is a Baroque church in Naples, in the Stella district, along the broad street opened between 1806 and 1810 to link the historic center to Capodimonte. It is also called Santa Teresa al Museo.
It was...
Cloister of Saints Marcellino and Festo (Museum of Paleontology)
Complesso degli Incurabili
The Incurabili complex is an ancient Renaissance hospital in the historic center of Naples, near Via dell'Anticaglia, in the San Lorenzo district. Inside is one of the most beautiful pharmacies in Italy, with wooden shelves and about 400 majolica...
Palazzo Carafa di Montorio
Palazzo Venezia
Capodimonte Palace
Church of Santa Lucia Vergine al Monte
Stadio San Paolo
Teatro Bellini
Naples Zoo
Crypta Neapolitana (Cave of Posillipo)
The Crypta Neapolitana (Latin; "Neapolitan crypt") is an ancient Roman tunnel in Naples, Italy.
The tunnel passes beneath the Posillipo hill and connects Naples with the so-called Phlegrean Fields and, then, the town of Pozzuoli along the road...
Park and Tomb of Virgil at Piedigrotta
The Virgilian Park at Piedigrotta, also called the park of the tombs of Virgil and Leopardi, is a small archaeological park on Salita della Grotta in Naples, behind the church of Piedigrotta. It holds the tomb that tradition says is Virgil's and...
Church of the Nunziatella
The Church of the Nunziatella, actually the church of the Santissima Annunziata, is a Baroque church in Naples' San Ferdinando district, on the Pizzofalcone hill, next to the Nunziatella Military School, whose chapel it is. Outside it has an...
Church of San Giuseppe a Chiaia
San Giuseppe a Chiaia is a church in Naples, Italy. Originally founded as a chapel for the Jesuit Order; it was enlarged during 1666-1673 under designs by Tommaso Carrere.
With the suppression of the Jesuit Order, the church changed...
Church of Sant'Eligio Maggiore
Sant’Eligio Maggiore is a church in Naples, southern Italy. It is located near Piazza Mercato (Market Square), and was built during the reign of Charles of Anjou by the same congregation that built the nearby Sant’Eligio hospital in 1270. It is...
Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli alle Croci
Santa Maria degli Angeli alle Croci is a Baroquestyle, Roman Catholic church in Naples, Italy, located on via Veterinaria, near the Botanical Gardens. The extramural church gained it name because the road leading up to this hill here passed a...
Church of Santa Maria Donnaregina Vecchia
The Church of Santa Maria Donnaregina Vecchia is a fourteenth-century church in the historic center of Naples, built for the Poor Clare nuns. In the nuns' choir it keeps the largest cycle of fourteenth-century frescoes in the city, and the tomb...
Church of Santa Maria in Portico
The Church of Santa Maria in Portico is a Baroque church in Chiaia, Naples, in the widening that closes the vista of the street of the same name. It has a dome covered in yellow and turquoise tiles, a bell tower with a bear-shaped weathervane and...
Church of Santa Maria Incoronata
The Church of Santa Maria Incoronata is a fourteenth-century Gothic church on Via Medina, in the historic center of Naples: it is the only fourteenth-century building left in that area. It sits about three meters below street level, has two naves...
Schilizzi Mausoleum
The Mausoleo Schilizzi (Schilizzi Mausoleum), also known as the Mausoleum of Posillipo or Ara Votiva per i Caduti della Patria is a monumental mausoleum built in the 1880s in a Neo-Egyptian style. It is located of via Posillipo, and overlooks the...