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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.
Basilica of Gesù Vecchio

The Basilica of Gesù Vecchio is one of the basilicas of Naples Italy; it is located in Giovanni Paladino Street, in the heart of the historic city center. The temple is called Basilica of Gesù Vecchio due to the fact that later, due to the expansion of the Society of Jesus, a new much larger church was built a short distance away, known as the Church of Nuovo Gesù (or of the Greater Trinity). It was the first Jesuit church in Naples Italy: its construction began in 1555 and it became the first place of worship for the Order of the Society of Jesus in the city. The church has a facade, built in the late seventeenth century by Giovan Domenico Vinaccia, in baroque style with a slightly convex shape: in the center there is the entrance door, surmounted by a large rectangular window. The interior of the Basilica of Gesù Vecchio has a latin cross architectural structure, with a single nave and side chapels, and preserves numerous works of art. The main altar contains a sculpture of the Immaculate that belonged to Don Placido. Very well known is the Feast of the Privileged Saturday falls on the first Saturday […]

Monuments
Monuments

Basilica of Gesù Vecchio

Via Giovanni Paladino, 38, Naples, Italy

Umberto I Gallery – entrance San Carlo Street

The Umberto I Gallery, built at the end of the 19th century, is the most famous gallery in Naples Italy. Here you can enjoy a good coffee in the bars, enjoy the shop windows, or visit the pictorial beauties of the eighteenth-century paintings of the Church of Santa Brigida. The gallery has imposing entrance arches on the outside and two streets on the inside with an elegant floor with marble inlays that cross orthogonally under the dome. Admiring the majesty of the Umberto I Gallery in Naples Italy it is difficult to believe that it was built in just 3 years. Begun in 1887 and finished in 1890, it was built in the same years in which, in Paris, Gustave Eiffel built his famous Eiffel Tower. The Umberto I Gallery in Naples had nothing to envy to the monument with which it rivaled for the beauty and complexity of the structure. The numbers of this construction made heads spin: maximum length 147 meters, width 15, height 34 and a half, the top of the dome at 57 meters. In a short time the Gallery became the “worldly” center of Naples Italy, also thanks to its proximity to the most important […]

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Monuments

Umberto I Gallery – entrance San Carlo Street

Via San Carlo, 11, Naples, Italy

Maschio Angioino

The Maschio Angioino is a medieval and Renaissance historical castle, as well as one of the symbols of the city of Naples Italy. The name Maschio Angioino is not a quirk of the Neapolitans but has a much simpler origin: in the Middle Ages the “Maschio” was the main tower of a castle, the most protected one where the castellan took refuge with his family during sieges. Therefore “Maschio” indicates the role of fortress that this castle has played for centuries in Naples Italy. Angioino, on the other hand, derives from Charles I of Anjou, who in 1266 defeated the Swabians and moved the capital from Palermo to Naples. The Maschio Angioino was built to guard the city from enemy raids, the position in which it was built was of strategic importance and completed a defensive system that previously had as protagonists the Castel dell’Ovo, now too old and obsolete for the attack systems of the time, and Castel Capuano, in a not very strategic position and far from the sea. The project was entrusted to the French architect Pierre de Chaulnes, the works for the construction of the Maschio Angioino began in 1279 to finish just three years later, […]

Monuments
Monuments

Maschio Angioino

Via Vittorio Emanuele III, Naples, Italy