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36: 133: 357: 347: 175:(San Gennaro outside the walls) located on the northernmost corner of the complex. Over the following centuries, these relics were divided and moved till they were putatively collected in the 352: 233:, with statue filled niches above a large rounded portal leads into an elongated courtyard flanked by parallel wings. The façade statues, including those of St Peter and St Januarius by 163:
Originally, the site housed a paleo-Christian church, putatively erected at the site of an sncient Roman temple dedicated to Vulcan. Supposedly the then Bishop of Naples, later St
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is a former monastery and church complex, later converted into a hospital for indigent located on Via San Gennaro dei Poveri #25 in the Rione Sanità, of the city of
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formulated the building into a hospital funded by various neighborhoods. After the plague of 1656, the hospital was expanded and by 1669 the viceroy
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was the first hospice for the poor in Naples, and remained the major such site until the 1750s, when the much more ambitious project of the
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By the early 9th century, a Benedictine monastery with an attached hospital was founded here under the government of Archbishop
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to this church. By the 15th century, dissensions within the monastery led to its dissolution, and in 1468 the Cardinal
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Catholic organizations established in the 17th century
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was built. San Gennaro still functions as a hospital.
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The narrow four story façade, rising across from the
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17th-century establishments in the Kingdom of Naples
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Naples
Capodimonte
Basilica dell'Incoronata Madre del Buon Consiglio
Severus of Naples
Januarius
San Gennaro extra Moenia
Cathedral of San Gennaro
Athanasius I
Athanasius of Naples
Abbey of Montecassino
Oliviero Carafa
Pietro Antonio of Aragon
Royal Hospice for the Poor
Parco di San Gennaro
Cosimo Fanzago
40°51′42″N 14°14′48″E / 40.861740°N 14.246547°E / 40.861740; 14.246547
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