San Giovanni Battista delle Monache is a church located in Via Costantinopoli in Naples, Italy.
The present church was built mainly during 1673-1681 using designs by Francesco Antonio Picchiatti. The facade was added in the 18th century,...
San Giuseppe Maggiore dei Falegnami is a historic church in via Carlo Bussola in the quartiere of Poggioreale, in the rione of Luzzatti in Naples, Italy.
Originally built in the 15th century; and dedicated to the Sacra Famiglia. In 1934...
Sant'Agnello Maggiore, also called Sant'Aniello a Caponapoli or Santa Maria Intercede, is a church in the historical center of Naples, Italy.
According to tradition, Sant'Agnello, now co-patron (compatrono) of the city of Naples, is buried in...
Sant Agostino alla Zecca, also known as Sant'Agostino Maggiore is a church in central Naples, Italy.
Originally granted to the Augustinian monks by Robert I of Anjou in 1259. The church underwent extensive reconstruction in the Baroque period...
The church of Sant'Antonio Abate is an ancient church in Naples, at the start of the district that bears its name, on Via Foria. Outside it shows an eighteenth-century facade, but beneath it medieval pieces survive, starting with the...
Santa Croce e Purgatorio al Mercato is a church in the center of the Piazza Mercato, in Naples, Italy.
A religious building has stood at this site since the 13th century when Conradin of Swabia was decapitated by orders of Charles I...
Santa Maria della Sapienza is a Roman Catholic church, located on Via Costantinopoli in central Naples, Italy.
The church was built in 1625 using designs by Francesco Grimaldi, and completed by 1630 by Giovan Giacomo Di Conforto. The...
Santa Maria della Stella is a church located on Via Stella 25 in the quartiere of its name in Naples, Italy.
The church was built in 1571, to host an icon of the Virgin, previously held in an aedicule near Porta San Gennaro. The Minims...
Santa Maria delle Grazie Maggiore a Caponapoli or Santa Maria delle Grazie Maggiore is a church located in the historic center of Naples, Italy.
Work on the church and adjacent monastery began in 1447, inspired by the beatified Pietro da Pisa....
The Church of Santa Maria di Caravaggio is a Baroque Catholic church located on Piazza Dante in Naples, Italy.
Construction was begun in 1627 under the patronage of Felice Pignella, and dedicated to the Holy Mary of Caravaggio, a small town in...
The church of Santa Maria di Montesanto and the annexed monastery were built in Naples, Italy, by a community of Carmelite friars that had its origins in Montesanto, Sicily.
The initial architect was Pietro De Marino, but the work including...
Santa Teresa a Chiaia is a Baroque church in Naples, Italy.
The church was founded in 1620, and completed in 1650-1662 by Cosimo Fanzago. Unfortunately, the earthquake of 1688 damaged the church and required reconstruction. The church was...
The English Cemetery, Il Cimitero degli Inglesi, or more correctly, Il Cimitero acattolico di Santa Maria delle Fede, is located near Piazza Garibaldi, Naples, Italy. It was the final resting place of many Swiss, Germans, Americans, Irish,...
The Poggioreale Cemetery is Naples' main cemetery, on the hill northeast of the center, and one of the largest in Europe. Its historic core, the monumental cemetery, is an open-air museum: Doric temples, Egyptian-style pyramids and statues among...
All that remains of the former Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples is a church, the church of the Graziella, which has the altar where the stalls used to be. Until 1737 this was the city's main opera house, and it was here that opera buffa was...
The Fontana del Formiello (Fountain of the Formiello) is a historic public fountain located at the rear exterior of the Castel Capuano, facing Piazza Enrico de Nicola, and across the street from the church and convent of Santa Caterina a...
The Fontana del Sebeto is a monumental fountain located in largo Sermoneta in the zone of Mergellina of Naples, Italy.
The fountain was commissioned by the viceroy Emanuele Zunica e Fonseca, and built by Carlo Fanzago based on a design by his...
Gaiola Island is one of the minor islands of Naples, Italy; it is offshore of Posillipo and gives its name to the Underwater Park of Gaiola (Parco Sommerso di Gaiola), a protected marine area.
The island takes its name from the cavities that...
Since 2006, at the historic Monumental Complex of Santa Maria La Nova in Naples, the Association “Oltre il Chiostro onlus”has set up the ARCA Museum (ARCA stands for Contemporary Religious Art). After the successful start of sectors in the...
The Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts is a museum in Naples housed in the Academy's building, near the Archaeological Museum. It tells above all the story of nineteenth-century Naples, with many paintings and sculptures by masters and pupils of...