Museum
ARCA – Museum of Contemporary Religious Art
Museo di arte religiosa contemporanea nel complesso di Santa Maria la Nova, con una sezione dedicata al presepe.
Convent · Napoli (NA)

A vast monastic complex founded in 1581 on the hillside, with a panoramic cloister, the Sala degli Angeli and the church of the Immacolata.
The complex bears the name of its founder, Orsola Benincasa, who in 1581 chose this then isolated area for a lay retreat, soon turned into a monastery entrusted to the Theatine fathers. After the 19th-century suppressions a school for the education of women continued here, from which the present university institute was born. Even today high tuff walls enclose much of the old citadel.Inside, we especially like the old cloister, which opens onto splendid views of Naples. Not to be missed are the Sala degli Angeli, the former hermitage church with 17th-century decoration in engraved bardiglio marble and canvases by Andrea Vaccaro and Andrea Malinconico, and the church of the Immacolata, frescoed by Michele Foschini in 1739. The complex also holds an art collection and a museum on the history of the site.
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Museum
Museo di arte religiosa contemporanea nel complesso di Santa Maria la Nova, con una sezione dedicata al presepe.
Archaeological site
L'antico acquedotto sotterraneo di Napoli, scavato dal IV secolo a.C., cuore della Napoli Sotterranea.
Church
Antica cappella gentilizia del palazzo dei de' Grassi, signori di Pianura, con un altare settecentesco in marmi policromi.
Palace
Palazzo cinquecentesco nato come laboratorio delle monache di San Gregorio Armeno, poi convitto per orfani; oggi spazio culturale.
Beach
Church
La chiesa più importante di Ponticelli, nata come cappella rurale nel Duecento e ricca di opere d'arte; campanile con cuspide maiolicata.
Church
La «piccola San Pietro» di Capodimonte, ispirata alla basilica vaticana; accanto c'è l'ingresso delle catacombe di San Gennaro.
Napoli (NA)
Thursday, 19 March → 31 December
Napoli (NA)
Saturday, 26 September → 15 January
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