Abbazia del Santo Salvatore + Telesia
San Salvatore Telesino (BN)
Hidden gemSacred art
The story
Set in the plain of the Sannio, the Benedictine abbey of Santo Salvatore gathers the finds of ancient Telesia, the Roman and Samnite city abandoned after earthquakes and raids, and never risen again.
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More gems in San Salvatore Telesino
- History & archaeology
Scavi di Telesia
San Salvatore Telesino (BN)
On the plain where the Calore meets the Volturno, almost three kilometres of Roman walls and an amphitheatre dug into a hollow tell of Samnite Telesia, still largely buried.
- Nature & hiking
Parco del Grassano
San Salvatore Telesino (BN)
Springs surfacing at the foot of Monte Pugliano fill a river of clear, cold waters, green as glass, where the canoe glides through dense vegetation.
More gems: Sacred art
Sacred artCappella Sansevero (Cristo Velato)
Napoli (NA)
Beneath a veil of marble that still seems to breathe, Sanmartino's Cristo Velato rests in the chapel's half-light, and the whiteness of the stone deceives every eye.
Sacred artDuomo di Napoli
Napoli
Three times a year the city holds its breath as the blood of San Gennaro waits to liquefy, among Gothic naves and the gold of the chapel devoted to him.
Sacred artCappella del Tesoro di San Gennaro
Napoli
Behind a bronze gate lie silverware, gems and the jewel-studded mitre of the saint: a treasure heaped up over centuries by the devotion of Naples.
Sacred artChiesa del Gesù Nuovo
Napoli
The facade of pyramid-cut piperno stone hides symbols carved into the blocks, while inside the Baroque bursts out in marble and in the memory of the physician Giuseppe Moscati.
Sacred artChiostro di Santa Chiara
Napoli
A garden of pillars clad in yellow and blue majolica, where lemon pergolas and eighteenth-century scenes painted on the tiles keep the noise of the city at bay.
- Sacred art
Santa Maria delle Anime del Purgatorio ad Arco
Via Tribunali 39
Bronze skulls stand guard at the entrance, and down in the hypogeum the cult of the anime pezzentelle (adopted souls of the dead) still leaves flowers and prayers beside abandoned crania.