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This guide is written by Neapolitans who live and love their city. If you are organizing your holiday to visit the historic center of the city of Naples Italy, on this website you will find valid support on the monuments, streets, churches, museums and others beautiful places to visit, where to sleep, itineraries, how to move, things to do in Naples and other useful tourist information.

Known throughout the world, Naples has become in recent years one of the most visited destinations by foreigners and italians. Naples Italy is a city with a historic center rich in history with museums that will make you relive the past, churches full of decorations and traditions, famous squares and streets that express the essence of Naples. Walking through the historic center of Naples Italy you can admire, between a coffee accompanied by a sweet hot sfogliatella and a pizza for lunch, the architecture of the historic buildings among the monuments that follow one another.
Naples is the city of a thousand colors, the city where folklore and the warmth of the people will envelop you. If you need help during your visit to Naples, you will find people who will be able to help you with pleasure and cordiality.
This guide is written by Neapolitans who live and love their city. If you are organizing your trip to visit the city of Naples on this website you will find valid support on the monuments to visit, where to sleep, itineraries, how to move around the city, things to do in Naples and other useful tourist information.
Gesù Nuovo Square and Church

Gesù Nuovo Square is one of the most important, famous and symbolic squares of the historic center of Naples Italy. Located on the Lower decumanus, it is the symbolic square of the historic center of Naples Italy. Entirely pedestrianized, it is dominated by the imposing marble obelisk of the Immaculate Conception and is enclosed by the Church of Gesù Nuovo, the monastery of Santa Chiara and historic noble palaces such as, for example, Pandola Palace, Pignatelli di Monteleone Palace, Professa Palace and the Palace of the Congregations. Inside the square is the church of the same name of Gesù Nuovo (or Trinity Major), consecrated in 1601, which some of the most influential artists of the Neapolitan school worked on. The exterior, consisting of a characteristic ashlar facade and a Renaissance marble portal, the interior in Baroque style with a Greek cross plan and divided into three naves, is majestic and lively due to the polychrome marble coating of the walls and the richness of the altars. In all, there are eleven side chapels with as many altars, also rich in decorations. What completely captures the eyes inside the Church of the Gesù Nuovo in Naples Italy is the high altar, […]

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Gesù Nuovo Square and Church

Piazza del Gesù, Naples, Italy

Toledo Street

Toledo Street has been, since the 16th century, one of the most beautiful and important arteries of the city of Naples Italy both from a commercial, cultural and historical point of view. It was built in 1536 at the behest of the viceroy Pedro Alvarez de Toledo. It is 1.2 km long and, starting from Dante Square, leads to Trieste and Trento Square. Among the main noble palaces you will find Cirella Palace, Zevallos Palace, Lieto Palace, De Rosa and Trabucco Palace. Those upstream still retain the original appearance of the sixteenth century with narrow alleys that rise towards the mountain, are still known as Spanish Quarters. On Toledo Street in Naples Italy there are elegant shops, department stores and the headquarters of the major banks in the ancient noble palaces. Always animated by a lively crowd, it is the heart of the city “struscio” (which in addition to them the name used throughout Italy for the walk on the main street on holidays is also used to define the Holy Week walk on the occasion of the visit to Sepulchres, right on Toledo Street). On both sides, populous neighborhoods grew. They were built to accommodate the Spanish military garrisons […]

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Toledo Street

Via Toledo, Naples, Italy

Complex of Santa Chiara

The Monumental Complex of Santa Chiara in Naples Italy, also known as the Monastery of Santa Chiara, is among the most relevant and appreciated monuments of the artistic heritage of Naples. Located in the historic center of Naples Italy, between the homonymous street and Gesù Nuovo Square, the complex extends over a vast area that includes the Basilica of Gothic origin, the monastic rooms, the archaeological area with the remains of a thermal establishment of Roman times, the large area occupied by the Franciscan Opera museum, the famous Majolica Cloister and the large bell tower. The Monumental Complex of Santa Chiara was built between 1310 and 1328 by the will of King Roberto d’Angiò and his wife, Sancia di Maiorca. The structure also includes a splendid majolica cloister made up of 66 arches resting on as many piperno pillars covered with majolica with plant scenes. Some seats connect the majolica pillars and scenes of everyday life of that time are depicted on them. Frescoes from the 1700s cover the walls of the four sides of the cloister and represent allegories, scenes from the Old Testament and saints. Roberto d’Angiò chose the best painter of the time to have the basilica […]

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Monuments

Complex of Santa Chiara

Via Santa Chiara, 49/C, Naples, italy