Centro Storico – Napoli

Built by the Brancaccio family, the important Palazzo Filomarino della Rocca in Naples dates back to the Angevin age, as evidenced by the pointed arches along the walls of the staircase. In the first decades of the sixteenth century, the … Read More

The monastic citadel of Santa Chiara in Naples was built, from 1309 to 1343, at the behest of King Robert of Anjou and his wife Sancia di Mallorca for the Franciscan order. The church has a single rectangular nave with … Read More

The Church of Gesù Nuovo inaugurated in 1601 by the Jesuit architect Giuseppe Valeriano, was born in 1584 from the transformation of one of the most important Aragonese palaces in the city, built around 1470 by Novello da Sanlucano for … Read More

Piazza del Gesù in Naples, once the entrance area to the Greco-Roman city, is the ideal starting point towards the ancient center of Naples which develops along three parallel streets (corresponding to the Greek plateiai, decumani in the Roman period), … Read More