St. Joseph

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St. Joseph

And 'the neighborhood with San Lorenzo's oldest downtown.
In this area the Greek-Roman city resurfaces, churches, palaces that the years and the events Stoic spared, the forging of new buildings.
The district name is the church of San Giuseppe Maggiore, founded in the sixteenth century by a congregation of Carpenters, was demolished between 1934 and 1936 along with two other theaters and churches to make room for two squares, Piazza Charity and Piazza Matteotti (or square Post Office).
It 'a district where in the years after they took living strong and powerful monastic orders secular, the notice due to the presence of churches, imposing monasteries which, Santa Maria la Nova, Santa Chiara, Gesù Nuovo, San Domenico Maggiore, and St. Peter's Macella .
At St. Joseph we see that Naples was reorganized into geometric shapes perpendicular to the urban plan in Roman times and features visible and viable today, we speak of decumani Roman (West / East), which is: via Anticaglia, via the Holy Apostles, by the Courts , Via San Biagio dei Booksellers that are perpendicular to the streets below (south / north) called Card Romans.
In the sixteenth century with a new urbanization desired by Pedro de Toledo also affects the area of San Giuseppe.
Near Piazza Dante during the excavation of the underground line 1 were found materials of Roman road features superimposed, starting from the medieval age viceregal until the discovery of a limestone quarry used up in modern times.
For centuries, aristocratic families and human cultures to stay in this old quarter of the city.
In 1957 he sees the light project of the Forum Carolina (Piazza Dante), designed by Luigi Vanvitelli.
In the twentieth century a reorganization program protagonist district, an area of approximately 140 thousand square meters, from Via Monteoliveto Piazza Municipio from Via Toledo to via Medina.
Fact is put on a real citadel modern financial.