3. The streets of Vomero
Vanvitelli
street
Scarlatti
street
Luca
Giordano
street
Palizzi
street
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4. SCARLATTI STREET
This way is dedicated to Alessandro
Scarlatti, a famous music composer. This
way is the heart of commercial businnes,
there are a lot of shops and brand store,
like Coin, A Nike Store, United Colors Of
Benetton, and there are good etnic pubs
like 100 Montaditos.
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5. LUCA GIORDANO STREET
As Scarlatti, Luca Giordano was very
famous for his paintings, in this street we
have a lot of shops and cafè too, like
Leopoldo’s Cafè, AW LAB and Trony. But
there is The Diana Theatre, inaugurated
in 1933. The most famous theatre of
Vomero
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6. PALIZZI STREET
In this street some houses are made in
liberty style. One of them was Edoardo
Scarpetta’s house, Eduardo De Filippo’s
father
Eduardo De Filippo was born in Naples in
1900 and he died in 1984
The most famous operas are
Napoli milionaria and Natale in casa
Cupiello
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7. The name “Vomero” from the play of the hills
that the peasants of the hill practiced on the
feast days, challenging to trace the plow. In the Roman period but already in the
Greek age from the vomero descended
streams of water
On the top of the hill, in the tenth century, a chapel was
also called a holy helmet. And St.Elmo Charles Duke of
Calabria, son of the King Roberto, founded the
Charterhouse of St.Martin.
The Vomero today is the large and
populous city wreath along with the
Arenella and the top Vomero
and always in the real bourbon
residences in Campania we can
find Villa Floridiana
Vanvitelli Street Villa Floridiana
11. The life of Michele Cuciniello
• Among the Neapolitan art nativity certainly the most famous is the
set up made by Michele Cuciniello. Conserved since 1879 in the San
Martino Museum, it is made up of 800 pieces. Cuciniello was born
in Naples in 1823 by noble Lucani and Neapolitan parents. He
studied at the Real High School of the Savior in San Carlo and then
enrolled in the faculty of Architecture. In 1848, just 25, he had
started a brilliant career as an architect of Genio Civile. Cuciniello,
however, was deeply disappointed when the cautious King
Ferdinand II after the anti-monarchical warfare of May 15 of that
year recalled troops from Lombardy for public order reasons in
Naples. He also suspended the constitution granted a few months
earlier, abolished the Civic Guard and the press freedom. Cuciniello
was thus locked up in his work and hobbies, enthusiastic about
archeology.
12. • He designed civil engineering projects to improve roads and squares and
to reclaim nearby camps. At the same time, cultivating the study of
popular traditions, he started collecting statues of shepherds from the
1700s, acquiring them from private individuals, others in the workshops of
famous artisans. He then moved away from the Kingdom of the Two
Sicilies, in voluntary exile to Paris, renouncing an easy career as an
architect. Returning to his home in Naples in 1860 he went on to collect
Neapolitan pastors until 1877. Two years later he made a donation to the
Real Museum of San Martino. Michele Cucinielo died in Naples in 1889,
leaving his great work in his beloved city inherited.
13. Naples
Cathedral
Naples Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Napoli, Cattedrale di Santa Maria
Assunta or Cattedrale di San Gennaro;Neapolitan: Viscuvato 'e Napule) is
a Roman Catholic cathedral, the main church of Naples, southern Italy, and the
seat of the Archbishop of Naples. It is widely known as the Cattedrale di San
Gennaro, in honour of Saint Januarius, the city's patron saint.
The present cathedral was commissioned by King Charles I of Anjou. Construction
continued during the reign of his successor, Charles II (1285-1309) and was
completed in the early 14th century under Robert of Anjou. It was built on the
foundations of two palaeo-Christian basilicas, whose traces can still be clearly
seen. Underneath the building excavations have revealed Greek and Roman
artifacts.The Archbishop's Palace adjoins the cathedral.
14. The main attraction of the interior is the Royal Chapel of the Treasure of San
Gennaro, with frescoes by Domenichino and Giovanni Lanfranco
The church houses a vial of the blood of Saint Januarius which is brought out
twice a year, on the first Saturday in May and on 19 September, when the dried
blood usually liquefies. If the blood fails to liquefy, then legend has it that disaster
will befall Naples
On March 21, 2015, the blood in the vial appeared to liquify during a visit by
Pope Francis. This was taken as a sign of the saint's favour of the pope. The blood
did not liquify when Pope Benedict XVI visited in 2007.
16. Villa Lucia was a place of
prayer for the Benedictine
fathers at the end of the
sixteenth century, a holiday
resort of the fathers of
Lucchesi in the mid
seventeenth century,
purchased in 1807 by
Giuseppe Saliceti, Minister
of Gioacchino Murat, was
already an elegant coffee-
house in the form of a
temple restored by
Francesco Maresca in 1809,
when it was bought from
Ferdinand IV in 1815,
became part of the
Floridiana complex.
18. HISTORY
• Villa Floridiana is an important and historical
building and takes place in Campania, in the area
of Vomero.
• In 1815 Ferdinando di Borbone bought this place
for his wife Lucia Migliaccio and called it
Floridiana.
• After a long time, the architect Antonio Niccolini
renoved it in a neoclassic and romantic style.
• At the end of works, it was composed by 2
houses: an open theathre and a little temple.
• In 1919 it became finally a public building.
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19. The structure
• In the park there are a lot of species of plants and
flowers and the structure is composed by a
rectangular map.
• The entrance has 2 levels and there is a large
staircase.
• This overlooking the sea too and there are paths,
woods, meadows and also a small lake.
• Floridiana also presents a ceramic museum and in
the rooms is possible to look at wonderful classic
decorations.
20. Between the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth
century, in Naples as in many other European squares, a movement that
characterized the figurative arts and architecture of the first 20-30 years
of the 20th century was spreading.
This movement, called in Italy
"Floreale", or "Liberty"
Through the following photographs, an interesting
picture path is offered to discover the most
interesting examples of Neapolitan Liberty.
21. Antonio Niccolini had the task of
renovating the old buildings and
paths where plantedin green
with 150 types of plants
including holm oaks, pine trees,
platains, palm, bushes and a
rich collection of camellia
22. At the end of the work, included two
villas, Villa Lucia and Villa Floridiana, an
open air theatre and some fake ruins, all
in neoclassical style.
Floridiana and the rest of the park were
purchased in 1919 by the State, wich
exibited the collection of ceramics
belonged to the Duke of Martina, from
which the museum takes the name.
24. The palace is on the site of an earlier residence, which had housed the former
viceroy Don Pedro de Toledo, Marquis of Villafranca. Construction on the
present building was begun in the 17th century by the architect Domenico
Fontana.[1] Intended to house the King Philip III of Spain on a visit never
fulfilled to this part of his kingdom, instead it initially housed the
Viceroy Fernando Ruiz de Castro, count of Lemos. By 1616, the facade had
been completed, and by 1620, the interior was frescoed by Battistello
Caracciolo, Giovanni Balducci and Belisario Corenzio. The decoration of
the Royal Chapel of Assumption was not completed until 1644 by Antonio
Picchiatti.
In 1734, with the arrival of Charles III of Spain to Naples, the palace became
the royal residence of the Bourbons. On the occasion of his marriage to Maria
Amalia of Saxony in 1738, Francesco De Mura and Domenico Antonio
Vaccaro helped remodel the interior. It was Charles who build the other three
palaces in locations more peripheral to the city center. Further modernization
took place under Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies. In 1768, on the occasion of his
marriage to Maria Carolina of Austria, under the direction of Ferdinando
Fuga, the great hall was rebuilt and the court theater added. During the
second half of the 18th century, a "new wing" was added, which in 1927
became the Vittorio Emanuele III National Library. By the 18th century, the
royal residence was moved to Reggia of Caserta, as that inland town was
more defensible from naval assault, as well as more distant from the often-
rebellious populace of Naples.
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25. In 1888, King Umberto I of Savoy made changes to the western façade side of the
building (fronting on Piazza del Plebiscito), by displaying in niches a series of statues
of prominent rulers of Naples since the foundation of the Kingdom of Naples in the
12th century. The statues are displayed in chronological order, based on the dynasty
of each ruler. The series starts with Roger the Norman (sculpted by Emilio
Franceschi), and ends with Vittorio Emanuele II, the tallest statue and the last to be
added
STATUESStatues of Kings of Naples: history
28. CASTEL DELL’OVO
The most important castel is «Castel dell’ovo», it was
build by normans and anjou, in the twelvecentury. Is
situated in seafront.
29. MASCHIO ANGIOINO
The Maschio Angioino, or the new castel, is the first monument
that you find when you arrive from the sea. It was bilt in the
thirty century by Anjou. The castle as we can see it today, its
massive perimeter walls and crenulated towers, is the result of
alterations made during the Aragon Period.
30. CASTEL SANT’ELMO
The castle Sant’Elmo was dominate from city
above, it rise from a hill in the Vomero. It was
built in the fourteenth century from the king
Roberto d’Angiò.
