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Mercato (Italian for "market") is a neighbourhood or quartiere of Naples, southern Italy. It is in the southeastern part of the city, bounded by the industrial port of Naples on the south. At the centre of the area is the Piazza del Mercato or "market square", the medieval marketplace of the city. At the apex of the half-moon of the piazza is ...
The Church of the Carmine in Naples. Santa Maria del Carmine (Our Lady of Mount Carmel) is a church in Naples, Italy. It is at one end of Piazza Mercato (Market Square), the centre of civic life in Naples for many centuries until it was cut off from the rest of the city by urban renewal in 1900. The church was founded in the 13th century by ...
Naples (Italy) and its immediate surroundings preserve an archaeological heritage of inestimable value and among the best in the world. For example, the archaeological park of the Phlegraean Fields (Cumae, Baiae, the Flavian Amphitheatre and the Pozzuoli forum) is directly connected to the centre of Naples through the Cumana railway, and the nearby sites of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabiae and ...
History of Naples. The history of Naples is long and varied, dating to Greek settlements established in the Naples area in the 2nd millennium BC. [1] During the end of the Greek Dark Ages a larger mainland colony – initially known as Parthenope – developed on the Pizzofalcone hill in the 8th century BC, [2] and was refounded as Neapolis in ...
Santa Croce e Purgatorio al Mercato is a church in the center of the Piazza Mercato, in Naples, Italy. A religious building has stood at this site since the 13th century when Conradin of Swabia was decapitated by orders of Charles I d'Anjou, on October 29, 1268. A porphyry column at the site read: Asturis ungue, leo pullum rapiens aquilinum ...
December 17, 1987. The Naples Historic District is a U.S. historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, located in Naples, Florida. [1] The 500 acres (2.0 km 2) district is bounded by Ninth Avenue S, 3rd Street, Thirteenth Avenue S, and the Gulf of Mexico. It contains 65 historic houses, two historic commercial ...
The historic center of Naples bears witness to the historical and artistic evolution of the city, from its first Greek settlement in the 8th century BC along the area overlooking the sea, [2] the re-founding of the same city in a more internal area, constituting the "ancient center (Centro Storico)", up to the Spanish Baroque city that saw the opening towards the west of the urban nucleus and ...
UTC-4 (EDT) FIPS code. 12-74562 [2] GNIS feature ID. 1853298 [3] Vineyards is a census-designated place (CDP) in Collier County, Florida, United States. The population was 3,883 at the 2020 census, up from 3,375 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Naples – Marco Island Metropolitan Statistical Area.