The Complex - which includes the Church, the Museum and the Hypogeum (the Lower Church) - represents an extraordinary opportunity to learn about the ancient cult of the souls in Purgatory. In 1605 a group of nobles founded a charitable...
The Natural Science Museums Center of the University of Naples was established in 1992 and consists of five museums: zoology, paleontology, mineralogy, anthropology, and the physics museum, which became part of it between 2011 and 2012.
The...
The Paleontology Museum of Naples is the most recent of the four affiliated with the Center for Natural and Physical Science Museums of the University Federico II. It was established in 1932, although fossil collections were already housed in the...
The submerged Park of Gaiola forms the core of the Posillipo coastline, between the cliffs of the Trentaremi bay and the slopes of Marechiaro, covered with Mediterranean scrub. Within the park, the integral reserve area includes the stretch of...
The Camaldoli hill is the highest point in Naples: 457 meters of volcanic hill between the districts of Chiaiano, Arenella, Soccavo and Pianura, with a sixteenth-century hermitage on top, an urban park of chestnut woods and a view that reaches as...
The Grotta di Seiano is a 770-meter Roman tunnel cut into the tuff of the Posillipo hill, in Naples, leading to the Pausilypon archaeological park: the remains of a great imperial villa with a theater, an odeon and baths, overlooking the sea...
The Galleria Principe di Napoli is a covered iron-and-glass arcade in the heart of Naples, between the National Archaeological Museum and the Academy of Fine Arts. It was meant to be a fashionable shopping lounge; it has mostly stayed an elegant,...
The Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte (Italian: Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Italy's Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (National Institute for Astrophysics, INAF). It is...
The Palazzo della Casa del Mutilato (Palace of the House of the Mutilated) is a building, located on via Guantai Nuovi and via Diaz, in piazza Matteotti in Naples, Italy. It is an example of the Fascist architecture constructed during the rule of...
The Carmine Castle was a castle in Naples, Italy. It was one of the fortifications built by the Spaniards under viceroy Pedro Álvarez de Toledo in the mid-16th century as part of the Spanish plans to surround the city with walls and forts. It...
The church of the Santissima Trinità alla Cesarea (or Santa Maria del Rimedio a Salvator Rosa) is a Baroque-style church, located in Piazetta Trinità alla Cesarea, in central Naples, Italy.
The church and the convent were built by friars for...
San Carlo alle Mortelle is a Baroque style, Roman Catholic church in central Naples, Italy.
The church was erected in 1616 under design of Giovanni Ambrogio Mazenta. Most of the work was completed within the 17th century, while the façade,...
San Giorgio dei Genovesi (or San Giorgio alla Commedia Vecchia) is a church on Via Medina in the Center of Naples, Italy. It is adjacent and just north of the Church of the Santa Maria Incoronata, two doors south from the Palazzo d’Aquino di...