National archeologic museum
The National Archaeological Museum of Naples is among the oldest and most important in the world for the richness and uniqueness of its heritage and for its contribution to the European cultural panorama.
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Catacombs of San Gennaro
A millenary history that lives in the subsoil of Naples, a journey to discover the close bond of faith between the city and its patron San Gennaro. Naples is one of the most striking examples of a city where history can be retraced through its “layers”.
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Catacombs of San Gaudioso
Under the Basilica of Santa Maria della Sanità, the nerve center of the district, stands what was once the second most important early Christian cemetery in the city. From the necropolis to the center of neighborhood life
The valley that today houses one of the most populous districts of Naples was once a necropolis and cemetery area.
The valley that today houses one of the most populous districts of Naples was once a necropolis and cemetery area.
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Church of the Holy Face
The history of the Temple is linked to the life and works of the Servant of God, Flora De Santis, and to the propagation of the veneration of the Holy Face of Jesus.
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Church of Capodimonte
The majestic church of the Incoronata Madre del Buon Consiglio in Capodimonte was built by divine inspiration and fervent industriousness of a Neapolitan girl, Maria Landi, then a Franciscan tertiary and currently a Servant of God
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Moiariello descent
The toponym Moiariello comes from small Moggio, the unit of agricultural measurement (moggiariello, moiariello). In fact, all the slopes of the Capodimonte Hill refer to a rural conformation and Capodimonte, from the Botanical Garden in via Foria to the Real Bosco, among gardens, urban gardens and parks, is considered the green lung of the city.
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Astronomical Observatory
The Capodimonte Astronomical Observatory is the Neapolitan section of the National Institute of Astrophysics, INAF, the main Italian institution for ground and space astronomical and astrophysics research.
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Princess Iolanda Staircase
In the Fascist era they were named after Princess Iolanda Margherita of Savoy. From the tondo it is possible to notice the decorations placed on the sides of the stairs: on two large pillars there are two Egyptian marble canopic jars and they have two garlands, on the left there is the wording of the gardens, on the right the coats of arms of the Municipality and of the House of Savoy .
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Round of Capodimonte
The Capodimonte tondo is a square in Naples, located in the Stella district at the end of Corso Amedeo di Savoia and at the beginning of Via di Capodimonte.
It is said in this way because of its oval plan, popularly called round.
It is said in this way because of its oval plan, popularly called round.
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Piazza Bellini
Piazza Bellini is a square located on the decumanus major of Naples and one of the busiest in the city due to the large number of clubs facing the same square
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Piazza Dante Alighieri
Piazza Dante is one of the most important squares in Naples and is located in the historic city centre. It forms the beginning of via Toledo and, through the access to Port’Alba on the north side of the square, it flows along the Decumanus major.
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San Severo Chapel
Located in the heart of the ancient center of Naples, the Museo Cappella Sansevero is a jewel of the international artistic heritage. Baroque creativity and dynastic pride, beauty and mystery intertwine, creating a unique atmosphere here, almost out of time.
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Underground Naples
A substrate rich in history and linked to the rediscovery of a rare heritage, if not unique in its kind. Works of great civil engineering, left abandoned for a long time and today recovered to new life thanks to the skilful work of Underground Naples. Indescribable beauties and evocative places to be discovered.
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“Sanità” District
Nowhere embodies the contradictions of Naples like the Rione Sanità. Located in a valley, it was born as a burial place in the Greco-Roman age.
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Via San Gregorio Armeno
Via San Gregorio Armeno is a street in the historic center of Naples, famous for tourism for its crib craft shops.
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Piazza del Gesù
Piazza del Gesu Nuovo, located along the Lower Decumanus (Spaccanapoli), is located a few steps from via Toledo and from Piazza Dante< span>, in a completely pedestrian area. The square is one of the most popular destinations for tourists, overlooked by various noble palaces, the Basilica of Santa Chiara, and the Church of Gesu Nuovo: pilgrimage destination for the cult of San Giuseppe Moscati. In the center of the square stands the majestic Obelisk of the Immaculate Conception.
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Fountain cemetery
The Fontanelle Cemetery is a former ossuary that covers more than 3000 square meters. and contains the remains of an unknown number of people.
It is located in the Rione Sanità, one of the richest neighborhoods in history and tradition in Naples.
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Museum and real wood of Capodimonte
A garden is a work of art. As Edouard Andrè, famous French landscape architect, professor at the Versailles school and author of numerous gardens in Europe, writes, a work of art that is difficult to assemble or rather difficult to mix between art and science.
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Market Square
It is one of the historic squares of Naples, located in the Pendino district, a few steps from the Mercato district. It borders Piazza del Carmine and the adjacent basilica of Carmine Maggiore. Most of the parties organized by the basilica take place in this square; at the end of May, the fires are also held with the procession of the “raising of the flags”.
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New Castle
Castel Nuovo, also called Maschio Angioino or Mastio Angioino, is a historic medieval and Renaissance castle, as well as one of the symbols of the city of Naples.
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Piazza del Plebiscito
Piazza di Napoli positioned at the end of via Toledo, as soon as you pass piazza Trieste e Trento. Located in the historic centre, between the seafront and via Toledo, with an area of approximately 25,000 square metres, the square is one of the largest in the city and in Italy and for this reason it is the most used for large events.
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Sant’elmo Castle
The first news relating to Castel Sant’Elmo dates back to 1275. In 1329 Roberto d’Angiò entrusted the task of its expansion to the Sienese sculptor and architect Tino di Camaino who transformed the building into a veritable palatium for the re and for the court, with a quadrilateral plan, with two towers; in 1348 it was defined in documents as castrum Sancti Erasmi, due to the presence in that place of a chapel dedicated to Sant’Erasmo.
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Martyrs’ square
The monument placed in the center of the square consists of a column that already existed in the Bourbon period, when the square took the name of Piazza della Pace. On the top stands a statue of Emanuele Caggiano which symbolizes the “virtue of martyrs” and which replaced the previous statue of the Madonna della Pace.
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Castel dell’ovo
On the ancient islet of Megaride stands the Castel dell’Ovo. One of the most imaginative Neapolitan legends would trace its name back to the egg that Virgil is said to have hidden inside a cage in the basement of the castle. The place where the egg was kept was closed by heavy locks and kept secret because “all the facts and fortune of Castel Marino hung from that egg”.
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Poppella
Lo storico marchio Poppella nasce a Napoli, nel lontano 1920, dalla fusione di due nomi: Papele (Raffaele) e Puppnella (Giuseppina), ovvero Raffaele Scognamillo e sua moglie Giuseppina Evangelista, che, proprio in quegli anni, avevano iniziato l’attività di panificatori nel popolare Rione Sanità.
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Concettina ai tre santi
In questo posto storico dalle tradizioni secolari, che diede i natali a Totò, si ammirano le Catacombe Paleocristiane, il Cimitero delle Fontanelle e tanti palazzi aristocratici dallo stile barocco.
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Leopoldo
Castel Nuovo, chiamato anche Maschio Angioino o Mastio Angioino, è uno storico castello medievale e rinascimentale, nonché uno dei simboli della città di Napoli.
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La figlia del presidente
La pizzeria nasce da un progetto di Felice Messina e Maria Cacialli, figlia di Ernesto, pizzaiolo del Centro Storico divenuto famoso per aver simpaticamente “trascinato” nel 1994 l’allora Presidente degli Stati Uniti Bill Clinton nella sua pizzeria per offrirgli un “pezzo di Napoli”.
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‘A figlia d’o marenaro
La parola d’ordine è mare. È impossibile pensare al patrimonio gastronomico partenopeo senza partire dai prodotti del Golfo di Napoli: Napoli, come tutte le città di mare, ha una forte identità fondata sulla fusione armonica di cultura marittima e urbana; e i napoletani posseggono un rapporto viscerale con il mare.
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