Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #3 in Naples, Italy

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Number of sights 18 sights
Distance 5.8 km
Ascend 198 m
Descend 127 m

Explore Naples in Italy with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in NaplesIndividual Sights in Naples

Sight 1: Gesù Nuovo

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Gesù Nuovo is the name of a church and a square in Naples, Italy. They are located just outside the western boundary of the historic center of the city. To the southeast of the spire, one can see a block away the Fountain of Monteoliveto and the piazza of the church of Sant'Anna dei Lombardi. The square is a result of the expansion of the city to the west beginning in the early 16th century under the rule of Spanish viceroy Pedro Alvarez de Toledo. The square of Gesù Nuovo contains three prominent landmarks:The Church of Gesù Nuovo The Church of Santa Chiara The spire or guglia of the Immaculate Virgin

Wikipedia: Gesù Nuovo (EN)

457 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 2: Chiesa dei Santi Marco e Andrea a Nilo

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The church of Santi Marco e Andrea a Nilo is a former Roman Catholic church, located on via Paladino #50 in central Naples, Italy. It is less than a block east of the Santa Maria Assunta dei Pignatelli church.

Wikipedia: Santi Marco e Andrea a Nilo (EN)

207 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 3: Santi Filippo e Giacomo

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Santi Filippo e Giacomo is a Renaissance style, Roman Catholic church in Naples, Italy, located on Via San Biagio dei Librai, near the churches of San Biagio Maggiore and Santa Luciella.

Wikipedia: Santi Filippo e Giacomo, Naples (EN)

158 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: Santi Severino e Sossio

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The church of Santi Severino e Sossio and the annexed monastery are located on via Bartolommeo Capasso in Naples, Italy.

Wikipedia: Santi Severino e Sossio (EN)

420 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 5: Chiesa di Santa Maria del Divino Amore

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The church of Santa Maria del Divino Amore is a monumental church in the city of Naples, located between Piazzetta del Divino Amore, Via del Grande Archivio, Via de Blasiis and Vicoletto Paparelle al Pendino.

Wikipedia: Chiesa del Divino Amore (IT)

127 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: Chiesa delle Crocelle ai Mannesi

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The church of San Francesco d'Assisi, popularly known as the Church of the Crocelle to the Mannesi, is a building of historical-artistic interest of Naples; It is located in the heart of the historic center, in the square of the same name.

Wikipedia: Chiesa delle Crocelle ai Mannesi (IT)

113 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: Chiesa del Carminiello ai Mannesi

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The church of Carminiello ai Mannesi was a church in Naples, Italy, destroyed during the Second World War.

Wikipedia: Chiesa del Carminiello ai Mannesi (IT)

231 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Basilica di Santa Restituta

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Santa Restituta is a church in Naples, southern Italy, dedicated to Saint Restituta. The foundation of the basilica is attributed to the Emperor Constantine the Great in the 4th century and is mentioned in a passage from the life of Pope Sylvester I in the Liber pontificalis:

Wikipedia: Santa Restituta (EN)

392 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 9: Chiesa dei Santi Apostoli

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Santi Apostoli is a Baroque-style church in Naples, Italy.

Wikipedia: Santi Apostoli, Naples (EN)

477 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 10: Chiesa del Gesù delle Monache

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Gesù delle Monache is a Roman Catholic church located near the Porta San Gennaro in central Naples, Italy. Over the years, the church was also a parish church known as San Giovanni Evangelista in Porta San Gennaro or San Giovanni in Porta.

Wikipedia: Gesù delle Monache (EN)

378 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 11: Chiesa dei Girolamini

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The Church and Convent of the Girolamini or Gerolamini is a church and ecclesiastical complex in Naples, Italy. It is located directly across from the Cathedral of Naples on via Duomo. The facade is across the homonymous piazza and street from Santa Maria della Colonna. It is one block west of Via Duomo.

Wikipedia: Girolamini, Naples (EN)

130 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: Basilica di San Lorenzo Maggiore

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San Lorenzo Maggiore is a church in Naples, Italy. It is located at the precise geographic center of the historic center of the ancient Greek-Roman city, at the intersection of via San Gregorio Armeno and via dei Tribunali. The name "San Lorenzo" may also refer to the new museum now opened on the premises, as well as to the ancient Roman market beneath the church itself, the Macellum of Naples.

Wikipedia: San Lorenzo Maggiore, Naples (EN)

82 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 13: Basilica di San Paolo Maggiore

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San Paolo Maggiore is a basilica church in Naples, southern Italy, and the burial place of Saint Cajetan, founder of the Theatines. It is located on Piazza Gaetano, about 1-2 blocks north of Via dei Tribunali.

Wikipedia: San Paolo Maggiore (EN)

330 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 14: Cappella Pontano

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Cappella Pontano

The Pontano Chapel is a small Renaissance temple in Naples located in the ancient center of the city, along the major decumanus, between Via del Sole and Via dei Tribunali. The church of Santa Maria Maggiore alla Pietrasanta is also located near the building.

Wikipedia: Cappella dei Pontano (IT)

201 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 15: Amor Divino

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Amor Divino

The Cappella Sansevero is a chapel located on Via Francesco de Sanctis 19, just northwest of the church of San Domenico Maggiore, in the historic center of Naples, Italy. The chapel is more properly named the Chapel of Santa Maria della Pietà. It contains works of Rococo art by some of the leading Italian artists of the 18th century.

Wikipedia: Cappella Sansevero (EN)

167 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 16: Croce di Lucca

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Croce di Lucca

The church of the Croce di Lucca is a religious edifice in central Naples, Italy, on the Via dei Tribunali.

Wikipedia: Croce di Lucca, Naples (EN)

1293 meters / 16 minutes

Sight 17: Chiesa dei Santi Bernardo e Margherita

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The Church of Saints Bernardo and Margherita is a monumental church in Naples, Italy, located in Via San Giuseppe dei Nudi. The building is incorporated into the Sovereign Military Order of Malta's Complex, and is also known as St. John's Church of the Sovereign Order of Malta.

Wikipedia: Chiesa dei Santi Bernardo e Margherita (IT)

682 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 18: Basilica di Santa Maria della Pazienza

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The sanctuary of Santa Maria della Pazienza is a complex founded in 1601 and consisting of an ancient hospital and the basilica church of the same name; It stands in Naples in Piazza Cesarea, in the Avvocata district, near the Santissima Trinità alla Cesarea.

Wikipedia: Basilica di Santa Maria della Pazienza (IT)

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