Duomo di San Gennaro

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Address: Via Duomo, Naples
Hours: Mon - Sat 8am-12:30pm, 4:30pm-7pm. Sun 9am-12pm, 5pm-7:30pm
Admission: Free

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Holy Place, Must-Do Experience, Religious Experience, Church / Cathedral

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The Duomo is the main church of Naples. A wonderful Gothic cathedral built in the thirteenth century, it stands on the site of an earlier church dating from around 570 AD. It is dedicated to Naples' patron saint, San Gennaro. A vial of the saint's blood is brought out three times a year - on the first Saturday in May, September 19 and December 16 - and if it liquefies, all is well. If it doesn't... fears are held for the safety of Naples. Luckily, it nearly always liquefies.

The cathedral contains some excellent artworks including frescoes in the Chapel of the Treasure of San Gennaro, and some 4th century mosaics. To one side of the Duomo is the 4th century Basilica Santa Restituta, the oldest chapel in Naples, containing columns believed to be from the Temple of Apollo. Under here is an interesting archeological site tracing the Greek, Roman and early Christian city.

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Review by Anonymous, March 2010
Doing what: Naples City Hop-on Hop-off Tour

We planned to pick up the tour at the Duomo stop, which we understood to be an option and which according to our information was closest to the Napoli train station. Apparently this is no longer a stop for City Signtseeing but only a "shuttle" stop. We were allowed on the shuttle but there was no commentary, everyone conversed in Italian. We got off at the archeological museum, looked at all the exhibits, and waited at the City Sightseeing sign outside. When a shuttle arrived, the driver told us we needed to find a different bus, like the picture. He gave us a brochure and so we waited and waited for the "real" bus to arrive. We had hoped to use this tour to get an overview of Naples but after seeing only the section from the archeological museum to the Piazza Municipio we were told to get off the bus. We waited around at the Piazza and finally another bus took us a through some of the route we had already seen and dropped us off, saying it was the end of the tour. Our intention to see the city was dashed we could have taken a cab to the museum for the cost of this "tour".

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The nearest metro station is Piazza Cavour. Note that the archeological area is open on weekdays with the same hours as the cathedral, but it is closed weekends and religious holidays.

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