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Naples itinerary
Places to Visit
- The Duomo, a Gothic building from the early thirteenth century ( with a late nineteenth century neo-Gothic facade), is dedicated to the patron saint of the city San Gennaro. The first chapel into the cathedral holds two phials of the saint's blood, which liquefy three times a year (first Saturday in May, September 19 and December 16) in the Bishop's hands, renewing the Miracle of San Gennaro.
- San Lorenzo Maggiore, a large gothic church built in the fourteenth century during the reign of the Angevin king Robert the Wise on the site of a Roman basilica - remains of which are in the cloisters.
- The church of San Gregorio Armeno, a sumptuous Baroque edifice with frescoes by the late seventeenth-century Neapolitan artist Luca Giordano.
- The Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte (Tue-Sun 9/14) holds a superb collection of Renaissance paintings with works of Brueghel, Perugino, Botticelli, Lippi, Titian, Raphael, Bellini, ecc.
- The Museo Archeologico Nazionale (9/19 Tue clo.) holds a collection of antiquities with large sculptures and the best of finds from Roman sites of Pompei and Herculaneum.
- Palazzo Reale, the former residence of the various dynasties that ruled Naples, is decorated with fine Baroque excesses of gilded furniture and great overbearing taprestys.
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