Naples Walking Tour: Heart of the Historic Center, Traditions & Baroque

Highlights

• Neapolitan Tradition
• Historic Heart of Naples
• Art & Architecture

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   Spaccanapoli

   15min

   The lower decumanus, which takes the official names of via Benedetto Croce and via Forcella in the central area, but is commonly called Spaccanapoli, is a road artery in the ancient center of Naples and is one of the most important streets in the city.

2. 2

   Via San Gregorio Armeno

   15min

   Via San Gregorio Armeno is a street in the historic center of Naples, famous for tourism for the artisan shops of nativity scenes. Today via San Gregorio Armeno is known all over the world as the exhibition center of the craft shops located here that now all year round make figurines for nativity scenes, both canonical and original (usually every year the most eccentric artisans make figurines with the features of characters of stringent topicality that perhaps stood out positively or negatively during the year).

3. 3

   Basilica di San Lorenzo Maggiore

   15min

   The basilica of San Lorenzo Maggiore is a monumental basilica in Naples, one of the oldest in the city, located in the historic centre, near Piazza San Gaetano. The religious complex houses the setting up of the Museo dell'Opera di San Lorenzo Maggiore, which also includes access to the homonymous archaeological excavations. Index

4. 4

   Via Dei Tribunali

   15min

   Today the decumanus major is one of the most important streets in the historic center of Naples (declared a world heritage site in 1995) and corresponds to today's via dei Tribunali still entirely following the ancient Greek road axis. Precisely because it is a road structure originating from ancient Greece, it would be more appropriate to speak of plateia and not of "decumanus", a name from the Roman era which by convention replaced the original.

5. 5

   Campanile della Pietrasanta

   10min

   It is the bell tower of the Pietrasanta church in Naples1, to which it belongs as the only remnant of the primitive version, from which it remains isolated with a facade open to via Tribunali and yet another on via del Giudice.

Before you go

Location