Churches & Religious Sites — Napoli

A Gothic basilica where Thomas Aquinas once taught theology, its square marked by a soaring Baroque spire raised in thanks after the plague.

A Gothic Franciscan basilica built over the excavated Greco-Roman market of ancient Neapolis, ten metres beneath Naples' historic centre.

Home to Giuseppe Sanmartino's astonishing Veiled Christ, an 18th-century marble masterpiece so lifelike it still baffles visitors today.

A Gothic Angevin basilica rebuilt after WWII bombing, beside a beloved 18th-century cloister whose pillars and benches are covered in hand-painted majolica tiles.

The Gothic cathedral of Naples' patron saint, where a centuries-old miracle of liquefying blood still draws thousands three times a year.

A working charity since 1602, whose octagonal Baroque church still holds Caravaggio's Seven Works of Mercy exactly where he painted it to hang.