Italia Napoli Walks in the city3

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Walks in the city
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The Centro Storico (Historic Centre) is the
original core of the ancient city and a UNESCO
World Heritage Site since 1995. The orthogonal
grid of the Greek foundation of Neapolis is still
discernible and continues to provide the basic
form for the present day urban structure of the
city centre. Spaccanapoli is the road artery of
the district that divides Naples in two halves
and one of the east-to-west streets from the
original Greco-Roman city. The name is a popular
usage and means, literally, "Naples splitter".
Piazza Gesù Nuovo
Teemed with people, this cobblestone narrow
street holds many interesting monuments, shops,
and historical building and is mainly a
pedestrian area. Today, the street officially
starts at Piazza Gesù Nuovo and is officially
named Via Benedetto Croce. Moving east, the
street changes name to Via S. Biagio dei Librai
and then crosses Via Duomo (named for the
Cathedral of Naples) and moves beyond the
confines of the old center of town.  It is the
main promenade for tourists as it provides access
to a number of important sights of the city
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Piazza del Gesù The square has been for centuries
the main western entrance to the city centre and
took on its modern proportions only in the 16th
century after several modifications. Nowadays the
piazza is ornated by the Guglia dellImmacolata (s
pire) dating back to the 18th century and is
dominated by the impressive silhouettes of two
outstanding monuments the Chiesa del Gesù Nuovo
and the Monastero of Santa Chiara
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The Guglia dellImmacolata (spire) stands in the
square in front of the church of Gesù Nuovo
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The Guglia dell'Immacolata is the tallest and
most ornamental of three such "plague columns" in
Naples. On 8 December, the Feast of the
Immacolata, a fireman scrambles up to the top to
place a wreath on the Virgins statue
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Putatively, the Guglia dell'Immacolata was built
to invoke the Virgin Mary's protection from the
plague. Begun in the 17th century, it was
completed only in 1750 after decades of pauses in
construction. Sculptors Francesco Pagani and
Matteo Bottiglieri worked on the rich Baroque
decoration, prototypic of Neapolitan Baroque. It
contains bas-relief depictions of the
Presentation of Jesus at the Temple, the Birth of
the Virgin Mary and the Annunciation
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Piazza del Gesu Nuovo, Naples- Liceo Antonio
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The Church of Gesù Nuovo was originally a palace
built in 1470 for Roberto Sanseverino, Prince of
Salerno. The Jesuits had already built a church
with this name in Naples, now called Gesú
Vecchio. Political intrigues by the Sanseverino
family caused the property to be confiscated, and
eventually sold in the 1580s to the Jesuits for
45,000 ducats to construct a church (15841601)
under architect Giuseppe Valeriano. The
construction was also helped by local support
including that of Roberta Carafa, Countess of
Maddaloni. The adjacent gardens of Isabella
Feltria, Principessa di Bisignano were also
included in the construction
Piazza del Gesu Nuovo
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The Church of Gesù Nuovo
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Construction of the church began in 1584. The
church flanks the northern side of
beautiful Piazza del Gesù Nuovo, a favourite
late-night hang-out for students and lefties. 
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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
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The new church retained the unusual facade,
originally built for the palace, faced with
rustic ashlar diamond projections
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The marble door, from the original Palace, dates
from the early fourteenth century. In 1685, the
Jesuits made modifi-cations, with bas-reliefs,
the frieze and the upper cornice, the addition of
two lateral columns, etc
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The rich interior is a blast of Baroque and is
literally brimming with architectural and
artistic treasures by famous artists such as
Francesco Solimena, Luca  Giordano and  Cosimo Fan
zago
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The Church of Gesù Nuovo
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The church was badly damaged during the Second
World War due to air strikes. One of the bombs
crossed the ceiling of the nave without
exploding. It is now exposed in the church
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The Nativity Chapel has an altarpiece by Girolamo
Imparato
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Chapel of Saint Francis Xavier
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The church is the final resting place of
much-loved local saint Giuseppe Moscati
(18801927), a doctor who served the city's
poor.  St. Joseph Moscati, a biochemistry teacher
at the University of Naples and head physician of
the Ospedale degli Incurabili, was canonized on
25 October 1987 by Pope John Paul II
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Chapel of St Ignatius of Loyola
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In 2010, the art historian Vincenzo de Pasquale
and the Hungarian musicologists Dors Csar and
Lorant Réz identified the engravings as Aramaic
characters, notes of a musical score composed on
the facade of the church, read from right to left
and from bottom to top. It is a concerto for
string instruments to which the researchers gave
the title of Enigma
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Piazza del Gesu Nuovo
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Piazza del Gesu Nuovo
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There are soldiers deployed around the city,
guarding sensitive sites such as railway
stations, the port, foreign consulates and court
buildings, as part of a security initiative
called Safe Streets
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The Church of Santa Chiara is a Gothic style
church-convent built between 1310 and 1328 for
the wife of Robert, King of Naples. It has a
belfry that stands within the grounds at the
northeast corner. The complex retains the
citadel-like walls setting it apart from the
outside world. The walls contained a vast
religious community, and today contain the more
modest convent of the Poor Clares and a community
of the Grey Friars. The complex was expanded
along Baroque architecture lines in the 18th
century.
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Basilica of Santa Chiara, or the monastery of
Santa Chiara
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It was almost entirely destroyed by bombing in WW
II and was restored to its original Gothic form
in 1953
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This wonderful monument has a famous Neapolitan
song dedicated to it Munasterio 'e Santa Chiara,
which recalls the tragic bombardment of August
4th, 1943 that almost completely destroyed it
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The bell tower, separated from the main edifice,
was begun in 1328 but was completed only
in Renaissance  times
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The large rectangular building is 110.5 m long
inside the walls, and 33 m wide. The walls of the
nave are 47.5 m tall, and the nave itself is 82 m
long. There are nine lateral chapels on each side
of the nave
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The noteworthy monastic courtyard at the rear of
the church is the result of renovation carried
out by Domenico Antonio Vaccaro in the 1730s, for
Maria Amalia of Saxony, wife of Charles III of
Bourbon, King of Naples
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The famous cloister of the Clarisses, transformed
in 1742 by Domenico Antonio Vaccaro with the
unique addition of majolica tiles in Rococò style
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The brash color floral decoration makes this
cloister, with octagonal columns in pergola-like
structure, likely unique and would seem to clash
with the introspective world of cloistered nuns.
The cloister arcades are also decorated by
frescoes, now much degraded
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The cloister arcades are also decorated by
frescoes, now much degraded
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The Majolica Cloister at Santa Chiara monastery
nowadays has a completely different design than
at times when it was built. The cloister was
edified in the 13th century and consists of 66
lancet arches (in Gothic style) supported by 66
piers in volcanic stone called piperno, which is
highly common in former Neapolitan construction.
The structure itself has remained intact, yet the
changes have concerned a garden that has been
entirely modified
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The architect of the most radical transformation
was D.A. Vaccaro, who planned and completed,
between 1742 and 1769, two main intersecting
alleys that divide the garden in four smaller
parts, lined by 64 majolica columns decorated
with animal and floral patterns
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The majolica ornaments are attributed
to craftsmen Donato and Giuseppe Massa, who
worked at the cloister in order to harmonize the
architecture with the surrounding reality, nature
and colors
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Text Internet Pictures Sanda Foisoreanu
Gabriela Cristescu
Internet All  copyrights  belong to their
 respective owners Presentation Sanda
Foisoreanu
Sound Dmitri Hvorostovsky - Core ngrato
(S. Cardillo) Parlami
damore, Mariù (C. Bixio) Voce e notte (E De
Curtis) Irene Fargo - Munasterio e Santa Chiara
2018