Via Toledo

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Via Toledo at the end of the 19th century

The Via Toledo is an old road and one of the main shopping streets of the city of Naples , Italy. The road is almost 1.2 kilometers long and forms the north-south axis of today's city center. It starts in Piazza Dante and ends in Piazza Trieste e Trento, near Piazza del Plebiscito . Via Toledo once connected the old ( Partenope ) with the new city ( Neapolis ).

history

The street was designed in 1536 by the Spanish viceroy Don Pedro Álvarez de Toledo , the 2nd Marquis of Villafranca . He entrusted the execution to the two Italian architects Ferdinando Manlio and Giovanni Benincasa. It was laid out along the former city wall. Over the centuries, the road's reputation was increased by traveling the Grand Tour .

On May 15, 1848 , the street was the scene of the repression of the Neapolitan Liberals, who defended the newly created constitution. Between the 1930s and 50s, the street was modified with the construction of taller buildings, particularly near Piazza Carità.

From October 18, 1870 to 1980, the street was named Via Roma on the occasion of the appointment of Rome as the capital of the Italian nation-state that had emerged as a kingdom .

In 2012, the Toledo metro station opened here, which was awarded three prizes as the most beautiful in Europe. Since then, the street has been closed to traffic from Via Armando Diaz to Piazza Trieste e Trento.

Via Toledo today

The street was mentioned by Stendhal who wrote:

«Je pars (de Naples). Je n'oublierai pas plus la rue de Tolède que la vue que l'on a de tous les quartiers de Naples: c'est, sans comparaison, à mes yeux, la plus belle ville de l'univers. »

“I'm leaving (Naples). I will neither forget the street of Toledo nor the view we have from all parts of Naples: it is incomparable, in my eyes the most beautiful city in the universe. "

- Stendhal, March 8, 1817

Monuments

Via Toledo is one of the main tourist destinations in the city with a multitude of sacred and monumental buildings. It connects two important city squares with each other. The most interesting historical and architectural monuments that can be found on the street are (from Piazza Trieste e Trento to Piazza Dante):

Near the street is the Quartieri Spagnoli (Spanish Quarter), one of the city's traditional slums.

Web links

Commons : Via Toledo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christof Thoenes, Thuri Lorenz: Naples and surroundings . In: Reclams Art Guide Italy (=  Reclams Universal Library . No. 10177 ). tape 6 . Reclam, Stuttgart 1971, ISBN 3-15-010177-8 , pp. 14 .
  2. ↑ Marco Atlas: The Femminielli of Naples: on the cultural construction of transgender (=  transcultural studies ). Campus-Verl, Frankfurt, M. 2010, ISBN 978-3-593-39216-5 , p. 104 .

Coordinates: 40 ° 50 ′ 44 ″  N , 14 ° 14 ′ 57 ″  E