Naples: Guided Tour of the Old Town, Sansevero Chapel & Veiled Christ

Highlights

• Historic Center Walking Tour
• Sansevero Chapel Visit
• Historic Treasures

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   Stop 1

   Pass by

   Via Duomo is one of the most important and fascinating streets of Naples, located in the heart of the historic center of the city. The street takes its name from the majestic Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, commonly known as the Cathedral of Naples, which stands imposingly at its end.

2. 2

   Via Dei Tribunali

   15min

   Via dei Tribunali is one of the most famous and characteristic streets of the historic center of Naples. The street is renowned for its liveliness, rich history and variety of cultural and gastronomic attractions.

3. 3

   Stop 3

   15min

   Piazza San Gaetano is one of the most evocative and historic squares in Naples, located in the heart of the ancient center of the city. The square takes its name from the Church of San Gaetano, a baroque religious building that overlooks it.

4. 4

   Stop 4

   Pass by

   The square is named after Luigi Miraglia, jurist, philosopher and politician, senator of the Kingdom in the XXI Legislature

5. 5

   Piazza San Domenico Maggiore

   10min

   Piazza San Domenico Maggiore, one of the most characteristic and romantic of old Naples, with its obelisk surmounted by the bronze statue of the saint, surrounded, as in a sumptuous frame, by the great palaces of the Del Balzo family (later inhabited by the famous animator of the Conspiracy of the Barons, Antonello Petrucci), Casacalenda, Corigliano, Sansevero (seat of the di Sangro, the best known of which was Raimondo di Sangro, who was responsible for the embellishment of the famous Sansevero Chapel, notable for its works of art). The square is the crossroads of the ancient Neapolitan center, where Spaccanapoli meets Mezzocannone, the street of the Universities. From here you go to San Gregorio Armeno, the street of the cribs. Prince Raimondo di Sangro passed through here to reach the nearby laboratory adjacent to the family chapel, inside which the Veiled Christ.

6. 6

   Spaccanapoli

   Pass by

   Spaccanapoli is a historic street located in the heart of the ancient center of Naples. Its name derives from the fact that the street seems to "split" the historic center of the city in two. This street is an integral part of the Lower Decumanus, one of the ancient Roman hinges that crossed the city.

7. 7

   Museo Cappella Sansevero

   30min

   The Sansevero Chapel is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece, located in the heart of the ancient center of Naples, a short distance from Piazza San Domenico Maggiore. Built in the 17th century as a funerary chapel for the Sansevero family, the church attracts visitors from all over the world for the extraordinary beauty of the works of art it houses.

Before you go

Location