Area archeologica di Abellinum
Atripalda (AV)
Hidden gemHistory & archaeology
The story
A few steps from Avellino, the Civita district of Atripalda holds the ruins of Abellinum, with domus, walls and paved streets resurfacing beneath the modern town.
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Abellinum romana + specus martirum
Atripalda (AV)
At Atripalda the Roman Abellinum surfaces and, beneath the church, the Specus Martyrum: the crypt where the first Christian martyrs of Irpinia were laid.
- Sacred art
Specus Martyrum (Chiesa di Sant'Ippolisto)
Atripalda (AV)
Below the church opens the cave of the martyrs: here, after the persecutions of Diocletian, the bodies of the Christians of Abellinum were laid to rest. Squat pillars, low vaults, and the distinct sensation of being a guest in someone else's home.
More gems: History & archaeology
History & archaeologyStatua del Nilo ("Corpo di Napoli")
Largo Corpo di Napoli
A river god reclining for centuries in a quiet square, whom Neapolitans call the Corpo di Napoli: he leans his bearded head among putti and a sphinx.
History & archaeologyCappella Pontano
Decumani
A small Renaissance temple on the decumanus, which the humanist Pontano had raised for his lost wife, still lined inside with Latin inscriptions dictated by his grief.
- History & archaeology
Sedile di Nilo
Decumani
On the corner of a small Spaccanapoli square survives the seat of the old Nilo quarter, where the nobles once gathered before the sedili of Naples vanished.
History & archaeologyPort'Alba
Napoli
A seventeenth-century arch cut into the walls leads to the booksellers' street, where stalls of second-hand volumes pile up among yellowed pages and the shade of the old city.
History & archaeologyPorta Capuana
zona Garibaldi
Between two cylindrical towers an arch of white marble opens like a Renaissance triumph, the old city gate facing the road to Capua.
- History & archaeology
MANN — Museo Archeologico Nazionale
P.za Museo
One of the world's great archaeological museums: here the Toro Farnese, the mosaics of Pompeii and the Gabinetto Segreto tell the whole ancient Mediterranean in a single visit.