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Church of San Severo Outside the Walls

  • Visit: about 20 min
Church of San Severo Outside the Walls
Photo: Baku · CC BY-SA 3.0 · resized

San Severo alla Sanità, built in 1573 above the catacombs of Bishop Severus; Domenico Cimarosa began studying music here.

In piazza San Severo a Capodimonte, in the Sanità district, stands a church linked to the Christian origins of Naples: at the end of the 4th century Bishop Severus made his tomb here, around which the catacombs grew.The present church was built in 1573 at the behest of Archbishop Mario Carafa and enlarged by Dionisio Lazzari from 1680. A curiosity: in the monastery next door the composer Domenico Cimarosa took his first steps in the study of music.

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