Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #6 in Naples, Italy
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8.6 km
180 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 NaplesSight 1: Sacro Monte dei Poveri
The Chapel of the Congregation of Monte dei Poveri is a Baroque-style chapel located on Via Tribunali in central Naples, Italy. The chapel is closed for services.
Wikipedia: Chapel of the Congregation of Monte dei Poveri (EN)
Sight 2: Chiesa dei Santi Crispino e Crispiniano
The church of Saints Crispino and Crispiniano, also known as the church of the shoemakers, is a church in Naples, Italy, located in Via Antonio Ranieri, in the Duchesca area. Founded in the first half of the sixteenth century, it contains some paintings by local authors.
Sight 3: San Pietro ad Aram
The Basilica of San Pietro ad Aram is a Baroque-style, Roman Catholic church in Naples, Italy. It is located about a block from the church of the Santissima Annunziata on Corso Umberto I.
Sight 4: Chiesa dei Santi Cosma e Damiano
The church of Santi Cosma e Damiano a Porta Nolana is a Baroque-style church in central Naples.
Sight 5: Torre La Brava
The Carmine Castle was a castle in Naples, Italy. It was one of the fortifications built by the Spaniards under viceroy Pedro Álvarez de Toledo in the mid-16th century as part of the Spanish plans to surround the city with walls and forts. It stood at what was then the south-east corner of the walled city, that wall then turning in to the north. The fortress had great strategic value in the military history of the city up to and including the defense of the Neapolitan Republic of 1799 against the returning royalist forces of king Ferdinand IV. In order to make room for a modern road along the sea and the port of Naples, the fortress/castle was demolished in 1900 as part of the great urban renewal of Naples of that period. Two towers and fragmentary ruins still stand as historic markers.
Sight 6: Santi Marcellino e Festo
The Church of Saints Marcellinus and Festus is a monumental church in Naples, located in the historic center, near Largo San Marcellino, near the lower decumanus.
Sight 7: Santi Severino e Sossio
The church of Santi Severino e Sossio and the annexed monastery are located on via Bartolommeo Capasso in Naples, Italy.
Sight 8: Gesù Vecchio dell'Immacolata di Don Placido
The Gesù Vecchio is a church in Naples, Italy. Its full title is the Basilica Sanctuary of the Gesù Vecchio or Basilica Sanctuary of the Immaculate Conception and Don Placido. It was founded in 1554 and promoted to minor basilica status in 1958. Its name distinguishes it from the nearby Gesù Nuovo, built to cope with the expansion of the Jesuit order in the city.
Sight 9: Cappella di San Giovanni dei Pappacoda
The Pappacoda chapel is a monumental chapel in Naples; It stands in Largo San Giovanni Maggiore, adjacent to the Basilica of San Giovanni Maggiore and in front of the Palazzo Giusso, in the historic center of the city.
Sight 10: Basilica di San Giovanni Maggiore
The Basilica of San Giovanni Maggiore is a church in Largo San Giovanni Maggiore in central Naples, Italy.
Sight 11: Chiesa dei Santi Cosma e Damiano ai Banchi Nuovi
Santi Cosma e Damiano ai Banchi Nuovi is a deconsecrated church dedicated to Cosmas and Damian in Naples. It is sited on largo Banchi Nuovi and owes its name to the Banchi Nuovi, whose loggia previously occupied the church's site. The church was founded in 1616 and re-used the loggia's facade. It was extended later in the 17th century, including a scheme led by the engineer Luigi Giura. Its high altarpiece is now in the Diocesan Museum.
Sight 12: Santa Chiara
Santa Chiara is a religious complex in Naples, Italy, that includes the church of Santa Chiara, a monastery, tombs and an archeological museum. The basilica church of Santa Chiara faces Via Benedetto Croce, which is the easternmost leg of Via Spaccanapoli. The church facade of Santa Chiara is diagonally across from the church of Gesù Nuovo.
Sight 13: Gesù Nuovo
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
Sight 14: Basilica dello Spirito Santo
The Basilica of the Holy Spirit or complex of the Holy Spirit is a basilica in Naples located in Piazza Sette Settembre, along Via Toledo, in front of Palazzo Doria d'Angri.
Sight 15: Chiesa dei Santi Alberto e Teresa
The Church of Saints Joseph and Christopher, also known as the Church of Saints Albert and Teresa, is a Catholic place of worship of historical and artistic interest in the historic center of Naples, located in Piazza Santa Maria la Nova.
Sight 16: Chiesa dei Santi Pietro e Paolo dei Greci
Santi Pietro e Paolo dei Greci is a church at the Campania, the historic center of Naples, in Via San Tommaso d'Aquino 51. It was the center of the Scuola dei Greci in Naples and the Confraternity of the Greeks in Naples. Around this period there was a similar church in Venice called San Giorgio dei Greci. There was also a Greek Brotherhood of Venice. A prominent member of the Greek Brotherhood was famous painter Belisario Corenzio. The church was initially dedicated to the Twelve Apostles. They began building the church at the request of one of the descendants of the Byzantine Empire Thomas Asen Palaiologos. The church currently belongs to the Greek State.
Sight 17: Chiesa dei Santi Francesco e Matteo
The Church of Saints Francis and Matthew is a Baroque church in Naples, Italy. it stands in the historic center in vico lungo San Matteo.
Sight 18: Basilica di San Francesco di Paola
San Francesco di Paola is a prominent church located to the west in Piazza del Plebiscito, the main square of Naples, Italy.
Sight 19: Chiesa di Santa Maria degli Angeli a Pizzofalcone
Santa Maria degli Angeli a Pizzofalcone is a Baroque-style church in Naples, Italy.
Sight 20: Chiesa dei Santi Giovanni e Teresa
The church of the saints Giovanni and Teresa is one of the monumental churches of Naples; It stands in the Chiaia district.
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