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The Health District in Naples

The Palazzo dello Spagnolo in the Rione Sanità in Naples

The Rione Sanità in Naples, a popular area with important places of interest.

The Rione Sanità in Naples has a long history behind it that has transformed it from an elegant noble area to a popular and fu quarter founded in the sixteenth century in a valley that the Greeks and Romans used previously as a burial place.
It is currently one of the most popular areas of the city, but initially it was built to give residence for noble families and the wealthy bourgeoisie and the elegant Palazzo del Spagnolo and Palazzo Sanfelice, built between the second and third decade of the 1700, testify.

It owes its name to the excellent air quality that made it in the 1500 one of the most pristine areas of Naples and he was known for his own salubitras, thanks to the surrounding countryside and to the catacombs where miraculous healings took place. There was also a lazzaretto for plague, very used especially during the plague of 1652 and that nowadays has become the Hospital of San Gennaro dei Poveri.

The Rione Sanità is also famous because Totò was born there, one of the most important figures of Italian cinema and theater who was also a poet, playwright and singer.
In addition, important films such as "The Gold of Naples"And" Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow ".

The Borgo dei Vergini

It is the village that precedes the entrance to the district and is crossed by via Vergini, one of the most populated streets of Naples. It is there one of the busiest open-air markets of the city and you can buy goods of all kinds. Walking through it you can admire some of the most important baroque palaces and churches in the history of Naples.

The underground district

The Health District is made up of one underground stratification without equal which testifies to the relationship between its residents and the world of the dead, as early as the 4th century BC. There are important findings from the Hellenistic necropolis, such as the Catacombs of San Gennaro and San Gaudioso, and the Greek monumental tombs hypogea dating back to two thousand years ago.

What to see in the Health District

In the Health District there are some of the most important and fascinating sites of interest in the city:

  • Cemetery of the Fontanelle
  • Palazzo Sanfelice
  • Spanish Palace
  • Catacombs of San Gennaro
  • Catacombs of San Gaudioso
  • Catacombs of San Severo
  • Basilica di San Gennaro outside the walls
  • Cloister of Santa Maria della Sanità
  • Church of Santa Maria Antesaecula
  •  Hypogea in via Cristallini

Information on the Health District

How to Get There:

By subway
Subway 2 Line: Piazza Cavour station

By bus
C51, C52: via Vergini stop
E1, C57, 201: Piazza Cavour stop
R4, C63 178, 2M: stop at the Ponte della Sanità, then take the Sanità lift

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