From Toledo to Mount Echia

Toledo street becomes an emblem for the city project wanted by Pedro de Toledo. Become a popular stopping point for recreational activities, trade driven by magnificent palaces and cafes. Until the mid dell'900 Toledo is at the heart of the idleness of Naples intellectuals could find it sitting at a table in a bar in the  Trieste e Trento square a savior of James, Gabriele d'Annunzio, Ferdinando Russo to discuss art, literature social life

At the height of the Toledo Square Seven of September there is the Doria Angri Palace, designed by Luigi Vanvitelli's where Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1860, overlooking the Neapolitan people waving from a balcony

Opposite is the church of the Holy Spirit ciquentesca construction.Later we find Palazzo Maddaloni (1582) symbol of aristocratic life and the church of San Nicola alla Carita (1647), which houses paintings by Francesco Solimena (1692). Going down there at the Palace Gift where before there was a resurgent, home of Mount poor shameful proceeding is the church Santa Maria delle Grazie in Toledo (1628). On the way to Trieste e Trento Square Palace Zevalios where there is a tunnel.

(open from Mon to Fri from 10 to 18) is a palace of the seventeenth century renovated around 1920, the gallery of the palace are the latest masterpiece by Caravaggio, Saint Orsola stuck by the tyrant (1610).

Continuing we find  Duca d'Aosta Palace and the Theater Augusteo designed by Arnaldo Foschini. Soon after we find Berio Palace (Vanvitelli 1772) , until you come to one of the 4 entrances to the Gallery Umberto I designed between 1887 and 1890 is the result of modernization wanted around 1885, the floor shows the signs of the zodiac with a central rose winds. With the gallery inaugurates the Exhibition Margaret's most famous coffee of the Belle Epoque café-chantant. Arriving later in Piazza Trieste e Trento is the historic Caffè Gambrinus, past the square of the Plebiscite where we can admire the majestic Royal Palace, continuing to reach Via Gennaro Serra Monte Echia (Pizzofalcone).

Here on the hill are many historical buildings Pizzofalcone aristocrats Including Palazzo Serra di Cassano, today is the seat of the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies, founded in 1975 and that has a well stocked library (over 160,000 volumes). Then we find an ancient monastery and ending in Santa Maria degli Angeli said Pizzofalcone Nuziatella Military college.

Do not miss the wonderful view of the panorama from Belvedere Street to the Egyptian
 
A) Street Toledo
B) Holy Spirit
C) square charity
D) The Gallery of Palazzo Zevallos
E) Umberto I gallery
F) gambrinus
G) Santa Maria degli Angeli in pizzofalcone
H) Mount echia