Convento di San Francesco a Folloni
Montella (AV)
Hidden gemSacred art
The story
In the woods of Montella they tell of a sack of bread that appeared on the snow without footprints: the relic, dated to the thirteenth century, is still kept in the convent.
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- Nature & hiking
Grotta del Caprone
Montella (AV)
The name says what the shepherds believed: that in there lived the devil with his horns. It is one of the karst cavities of the Terminio, and among the most striking.
- In the water & diving
Cascate del Troncone e della Scorzella
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Waterfalls hidden in the green of the Terminio, where the stream comes down in steps and the light struggles through the beeches.
- Hiking
Piano di Verteglia
Montella (AV)
A plateau at 1,230 metres ringed by beech forest, where you snowshoe in winter and the herds graze in summer: a piece of the Apennines that looks like Norway, an hour from Naples.
Sacred artSantuario del Santissimo Salvatore (Montella)
Montella (AV)
A sanctuary on a knoll that watches over the whole Calore valley: you climb up on foot, and the effort is part of the prayer.
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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.