San Lorenzo Maggiore (Naples)

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The interior of the Church of San Lorenzo Maggiore, Naples
Inner courtyard of the San Lorenzo Monastery

San Lorenzo Maggiore is a church and former convent in Naples , Italy . It is located in the exact center of the ancient Greco - Roman city, at the intersection of Via San Gregorio Armeno and Via dei Tribunali. The name "San Lorenzo" also bears the newly opened museum in the buildings of the monastery and the archaeological excavations of a Greco-Roman market under the church.

The Franciscan Order laid the origins of the church during the life of St. Francis of Assisi . The location of today's church was made available to the order to compensate for the expropriation of the area of ​​the previous church of the order by Charles I of Anjou , who built his new fortress, the Castel Nuovo .

The newly opened museum occupies three floors around the inner courtyard and explains the history of the area around San Lorenzo from classical antiquity to modern times. Below San Lorenzo, the ancient Roman market of the city of Neapolis with numerous rooms was excavated. These are the only major excavations of the Greco-Roman past of Naples in the city center and can be visited.

Two of the chapels in the Gothic church were later redesigned by Cosimo Fanzago in the Baroque style with numerous inlays and colored marble . In the nave, there are magnificent floor mosaics from the 6th century from the Laurentiuskirche, an early Christian predecessor.

  • Main altar by Giovanni da Nola

  • Tino di Camaino : Tomb of Catherina d'Austria (1320–1323)

  • Majolica floor in one of the side chapels

  • Capella San Rocco and Capella Cacace (1653, with marble decoration by Fanzago )

  • Rosary Madonna by Massimo Stanzione in the Capella Cacace

  • Leonardo da Besozzo : Saint Anthony with angels , 1438

  • Tomb of Maria Durazzo, daughter of Carlo, Duke of Calabria (1371)

  • Crucifix and Holy Franciscans by Mattia Preti (1657)

  • Reliefs by Antonio Baboccio on the tomb of Ludovico Aldomorisco (1421)

  • Cappellone di Sant'Antonio

  • Cryptoporticus under San Lorenzo Maggiore

  • Excavations of a Roman market under San Lorenzo Maggiore

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Coordinates: 40 ° 51 '2.88 "  N , 14 ° 15' 28.27"  E