Abbazia della SS. Trinità + Borgo Scacciaventi
Cava de' Tirreni (SA)
KnownSacred art
The story
Between the unbroken arcades of Borgo Scacciaventi and the thousand-year-old Benedictine abbey pressed against the rock, Cava keeps two ways of crossing time sheltered from the wind.
Access
Abbey: guided tours ~€3 by booking; borgo free
More gems in Cava de' Tirreni
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Abbazia della Ss. Trinità di Cava de' Tirreni
Cava de' Tirreni (SA)
Wedged into a rocky gorge above Cava de' Tirreni, the Benedictine abbey has prayed for over a thousand years among cloisters, catacombe (catacombs) and a library of ancient Lombard parchments.
- Sacred art
Abbazia della Santissima Trinità
Cava de' Tirreni (SA)
Set into a wooded gorge above Cava, the Benedictine abbey founded by Sant'Alferio holds cloisters, a Lombard cemetery carved in the rock and an archive of parchments.
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.
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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.