Napoli: spaccanapoli

The square of San Domenico Maggiore, where is the apse of the Church that gives the name to the square, built between 1283 and 1324 by Charles of Anjou for the Dominican friars. Inside the adjacent monastery they hosted for some centuries the University of Naples, where also San Tommaso d'Aquino taught. 

The street of San Gregorio Armeno, which joins Spaccanapoli with Via Tribunali and that collects all the craftsmen of Neapolitan Christmas Crib (Manger Scenes). Each Christmas this street becomes destination of pilgrimage by tourists and enthusiasts, and turns itself into a kermesse of lights and colors, where they merge popular and cultured religion, Christianity and paganism. 

Cathedral of Naples, seat for the Cardinal and for the Treasure of San Gennaro, the patron saint of the city. Here it happens twice a year the Miracle of San Gennaro, when the Martyr's blood (saved into an ampulla) liquefies, announcing that there will be no calamities for Neapolitans. T

The Sansevero Chapel, with the statue of the Veiled Christ;                 the Brancaccio Chapel, with the low relief by Donatello; the Church and Monastery of San Lorenzo Maggiore, with the underlying excavations of the Greek and Roman city; the conventual complex of Girolamini, with the paintings by Luca Giordano, Pietro da Cortona and Guido Reni (among the maximum artists of Italian Baroque).