Events in Naples and surroundings: detail

From January 01 2006 to December 31 2008

Naples Cathedral

The construction, realized on the end of the twelfth century on wish of Charles II of Angiò, it incorporated the two ancient churches of Saint Restituta and of Saint Stefania; two paleochristian testimonies since Saint Restituta, was realized in the eighth century on the church of St. Salvatore, work of the fourth century while the church of Saint Stefania went back to the V century.
Of the church of Saint Stefania doesn't exist anything, while of that one of Saint Restituta we will find a homonym Chapel inside the Cathedral.
The Cathedral was built again in 1680 and modified subsequently in the following years.
The façade, reconstructed in 1407 to repair the damages of the 1349 earthquake, it results altered by pseudogothic forms for works realised between 1877 and 1905.
The inside, at Latin cross covered with a ceiling in carved wood and gilded of 1621, it is at three aisles divided by pillars that englobe 110 ancient columns of granite.
In the aisle on the right there is the Chapel of St. Gennaro, realized at the beginning of XVII century as ex vote after a pestilence with a Greek cross plan.
The dome was frescoed by Giovanni Lanfranco in 1643 and the walls, with marbles around the seven altars, were frescoed by Domenichino between 1631 and 1641.
The inside is guarded the so called "imbusto", a shrine bust, masterpiece of Gothic sculpture, with the skull and the reliquary which contain the blood of St. Gennaro, that miraculously melts twice a year. In the transept there are the Chapels Minutolo (of ancient Gothic architecture) and Tocco (with a floor realized in 1200), Francesco Solimena’s canvas, Luca Giordano’s canvas and a painting of the “Assunta”, work of Perugino and students of his shop.
Under the presbytery there is the Chapel Carafa, an elegant example of Neapolitan architecture of the Renaissance.

Timetable:
From Monday to Friday from 08:00am alle ore 12:30am,and from 04:30pm to 07:00pm.
On Saturday, Sunday and holidays from 08:00am to 01:30pm, and from 05:00pm to 07:30pm.

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