The cemetery of Fontanelle (called in Neapolitan "'e Funtanelle") is an ancient cemetery of the city of Naples, located in via Fontanelle. It is called this way because in ancient times there were many water sources. The cemetery houses about 40,000 remains of people who were victims of the great plague of 1656 and of cholera in 1836.
The cemetery is also known because there took place a particular rite, called the rite of the "souls pezzentelle", which included the adoption and arrangement of a skull (called "capuzzella") to which corresponded an abandoned soul (therefore called " pezzentella ») in exchange for protection.
The archaeological excavations of Pompeii have returned the remains of the ancient city of Pompeii, near the hill of Civita, to the doors of modern Pompeii, buried under a blanket of ashes and lapilli during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79, together with Ercolano, Stabia and Oplonti. The findings following the excavations, started at the behest of Charles III of Bourbon, are one of the best testimonies of Roman life, as well as the best preserved city of that era; most of the finds recovered (as well as simple furnishings for daily use also frescoes, mosaics and statues), are preserved in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples and in small quantities in the Antiquarium of Pompeii, currently closed: just the considerable quantity of finds is it was useful to make people understand the uses, the customs, the eating habits and the art of life of over two millennia ago.
The Royal Palace of Caserta is a royal palace, with a park attached, located in Caserta. It is the largest royal residence in the world by volume and the historical owners were the Bourbons of Naples, in addition to a brief period in which it was inhabited by the Murat.
In 1997 it was declared by UNESCO, together with the aqueduct of Vanvitelli and the complex of San Leucio, a world heritage site.
The Sansevero chapel (also known as the church of Santa Maria della Pietà or Pietatella) is among the most important museums in Naples. Located near Piazza San Domenico Maggiore, this church, now deconsecrated, is adjacent to the family palace of the princes of Sansevero, separated from it by an alley once surmounted by a suspension bridge that allowed family members to access the place privately of worship. The chapel houses masterpieces such as the "Veiled Christ" by Giuseppe Sanmartino, known throughout the world for its marble veil that almost rests on the dead Christ, the "Pudicizia" by Antonio Corradini and the Disinganno by Francesco Queirolo, and it is in his together a singular and meaningful complex. It also hosts numerous other works of exquisite workmanship or unusual, such as anatomical machines, two totally stripped bodies where it is possible to observe, in great detail, the entire circulatory system.
The historic center of Sorrento still shows the orthogonal layout of the roads of Roman origin with thistles and decumans, while towards the mountain it is surrounded by the sixteenth-century walls. There is the cathedral, rebuilt in the fifteenth century, with a neo-gothic façade, and the church of San Francesco d'Assisi, with a remarkable fourteenth-century cloister, with an arched portico intertwining on octagonal pillars. The Correale di Terranova museum displays collections of Greek and Roman artifacts and Capodimonte porcelain, with a section dedicated to 17th-19th century painting; from the park you can also enjoy a magnificent view of the gulf. At the Punta del Capo, Roman remains are believed to be from the villa of Pollio Felice (1st century AD). Another maritime villa is the "villa of Agrippa Postumo", built by Augustus' nephew.
Bellini Square is a square located on the Decumanus major of Naples and one of the busiest in the city due to the large number of rooms overlooking the same square.
Detail of the statue of Vincenzo Bellini, the Italian composer who gives his name to the square. The square, rectangular in shape, has always been one of the major intellectual meeting places of the city because it is surrounded by numerous universities and very close to the Academy of Fine Arts and the Conservatory of San Pietro a Majella, where important national composers studied among which Vincenzo Bellini, who gives his name to the whole square and which is represented in the square with a statue of Alfonso Balzico from 1886 in the center.
The lower decumanus, commonly called Spaccanapoli, is a road artery of the ancient center of Naples and is one of the most important streets of the city. It is together with the decumanus major and the upper decumanus (decumani of Naples), one of the three main roads of the urban plan designed in the Greek era and which crossed the entire Neapolis in their entire length. Given the origin, it would therefore be more appropriate to speak of plateia and not of "decumanus", a Roman denomination which by convention has replaced the original. The lower decuman became important between the Middle Ages and the nineteenth century both for the convents of religious orders and for the homes of powerful men who lived there.
The church of Gesù Nuovo, or of the Trinità Maggiore, is a basilica church of Naples, located in Piazza del Gesù Nuovo facing the Obelisk of the Immaculate and the Basilica of Santa Chiara.
It is one of the most important and vast churches in the city, among the highest concentrations of Baroque painting and sculpture to which some of the most influential artists of the Neapolitan school have worked.
Inside is the body of Saint Giuseppe Moscati, canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1987.
San Gregorio Armeno Street is a street in the historic center of Naples, famous for its tourist nativity scene workshops. The street which is popularly called San Liguoro, turns out to be one of the stenopori (from the gr .: stenosis, narrowing, and poros, passage) typical of the Greek urban architecture which characterizes the whole ancient center of Naples. As a stenoporos (a cornerstone of Roman urbanism), the street served as a link between the two plateies (from the Greek: plateia piazza) the largest plateia (now Via dei Tribunali) and the lower one (today's Spaccanapoli). The two main streets of the ancient Neapolis (from the Greek "New Town"), today's Naples, were therefore connected perpendicularly from this street, at the height of the Basilica of San Lorenzo Maggiore, where the agora rose.
The Cathedral of S. Maria Assunta is a monumental basilica and cathedral of the city of Naples. The cathedral rises along the east side of the street of the same name, in a small square surrounded by porticos, and incorporates two chapels built independently of the cathedral as side chapels: the basilica of Santa Restituta, which houses the oldest baptistery in Rome. West, that of San Giovanni in Fonte, and the royal chapel of the Treasure of San Gennaro, which preserves the relics of the patron saint of the city. It is one of the most important and largest churches in the city, both from an artistic point of view, it is in fact the overlap of more styles ranging from pure Gothic of the fourteenth century to the nineteenth-century neo-gothic, both under a folkloristic profile, hosting indeed three times a year the ritual of the dissolution of the blood of Saint Gennaro.
It is the museum where the world's most precious treasure is kept. it was opened to the public in December 2003 thanks to a project financed by private companies, European funds and local institutions and under the high patronage of the President of the Republic Ciampi, and on the proposal of the Deputation of the Royal Chapel of the Treasury, an ancient secular institution founded in 1601.
The archaeological excavations of Herculaneum have revealed the remains of the ancient city of Herculaneum, buried under a blanket of ashes, lapilli and mud during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79, together with Pompei, Stabia and Oplonti. Randomly found following excavations for the construction of a well in 1709, archaeological investigations in Herculaneum began in 1738 to last until 1765; resumed in 1823, they were interrupted again in 1875, until a systematic excavation promoted by Amedeo Maiuri starting from 1927: most of the finds found are housed in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, while in 2008 the birth of the virtual archaeological museum is shows the city before the eruption of Vesuvius.
The subsoil of Naples is crossed by a large network of tunnels, tunnels, aqueducts and spaces excavated and used by man during the history of the city since several centuries before Christ until a few years after the end of the Second World War, and still today , at least in part, can be visited. The underground sites are distinguished from the underground archaeological finds due to their underground origin since their construction. The building that currently houses the museum is the Palazzo degli Studi, built in 1585 as a "cavalry barracks". The building represents a certain architectural significance being in fact one of the most impressive monumental buildings in Naples. It insists on the area of an ancient necropolis of the Greek Neapolis: the necropolis of Santa Teresa.