From Teresa street to Capodimonte

Santa Maria street deli Scalzi, goes up to the Capodimonte Museum, overlooking the village Health, a village rich in traditions and legends. At number 109 Street Santa Maria Antesaecula born Toto. Eduardo De Filippo us spaces a Comedy "The Mayor of Rione Sanità. Along the way are building spindle Cimatile, (XVII Century by Carlo Vanvitelli).

 And a few steps Ramer Palace where he died Giacomo Leopardi. You then arrive at the square of Santa Maria Mater Dei, where is situated the homonymous Church (1587) on the border between the districts star and advocate, based on the grounds of a farm. From Piazza Mater Dei continues to get the small nineteenth-century church of Maria Santissima del Carmine, is the gateway to the cemetery fontanelle, is an ancient cemetery, an ancient ossuary of approximately 3000 m².

The space of limestone caves were used since 1656, the year of the plague scourge that caused at least three hundred thousand dead, until the cholera epidemic of 1836. Fontanelle The name derives from the presence of abundant springs and water sources in this part of town, in a season when the water was rare at Naples.

A) road santa teresa
B) Saint Mary of Mater Dei
C) Fontanelle cemetery
D) Catacombs of San Gennaro
E) Saint Maria Sanità
F) Museo di Capodimonte
G) astronomical observatory