Santa Maria Regina Coeli Santa Maria Regina Coeli The church, built in 1590 by Lateran Canonesses, is raised on a podium overlooking a square and is characterized by a high pronaos with pillars made of piperno, frescoed with landscapes by a Flemish painter. The most significant work inside was done mostly in the mid-17th century,…
Santa Maria delle Anime del Purgatorio Santa Maria delle Anime del Purgatorio The church, known as the Purgatorio ad Arco, was built in the 17th century by the Holy Work of the Souls in Purgatory (1604), which collected funds for Masses in suffrage—hence the intense repetition of skulls and crossed tibias—which has become the symbol…
San Gregorio Armeno San Gregorio Armeno The complex was founded in the 8th century by nuns who fled from Byzantium with the relics of the saint and has been documented since 930. In 1009, it was connected to San Pantaleone by an elevated bridge, on which the bell tower was built in the 17th century….
Monte di Pietà Monte di Pietà The Monte di Pietà was established in 1539 at the Giudecca to offer facilitated loans to needy citizens. The new monumental headquarters was built by Giovanni Battista Cavagna (1597-1605) facing the main axis of the expanding city. The solemn and airy atrium, supported by pillars, frames the Chapel of…
Pio Monte della Misericordia Pio Monte della Misericordia Built by Francesco Antonio Picchiatti between 1658 and 1670 to house the Pio Monte della Misericordia, the exterior of the palace foreshadows the charitable purposes of the institution facing the cathedral. The facade with its portico was designed to welcome the needy and emphasize the secular character…
Ancient Theater of Neapolis Ancient Theater of Neapolis Built in the 1st century BC on the remains of the Greek theater, the theater is located behind the Temple of the Dioscuri and is only partially visible. Suetonius recounts that Nero performed there as a singer, and it could host about 5,000 spectators. It was renovated…
Santa Maria del Rifugio Santa Maria del Rifugio In 1585, Costanza del Carretto Doria, Princess of Sulmona, purchased the Orsini Palace and donated it to the Oratorians, who adapted it into a conservatory to shelter girls who were no longer virgins, in order to protect them from prostitution—an institution that was absent in Naples during…
Sant’Andrea a Capuana Sant’Andrea a Capuana The building, originally dedicated to Saint Christopher, was granted at the end of the 16th century to the Hospitaller Fathers and the parish of Saint Thomas at Capuana. It was later called San Loren- zello, but when the small church of Sant’Andrea, founded in the 9th century by Bishop…
San Pietro a Maiella San Pietro a Maiella The church, built at the beginning of the 14th century, is dedicated to Peter of Morrone, a hermit on the Maiella who became Pope Celestine V and was canonized in 1313. It was expanded between 1493 and 1508 with the forward movement of the facade, originally aligned…
San Paolo Maggiore San Paolo Maggiore The first early medieval church was built in the cella of the Temple of the Dioscuri (1st century AD), located at the summit of the forum. Assigned to the Theatines in 1538, it was rebuilt by the confrere Francesco Grimaldi (1583-1603), featuring a large double-flight staircase and incorporating the…
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