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Sant’ Elmo Castle |
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Castle Belforte and Particular |
| The castle sees its origin in 1275, during the kingdom of Charles I of Angị. In this phase it had to have the structure of a medieval palatium. The Belforte, this was in origin the name of the Castle, rises in 1329 to want of Roberto of Angị on the hill of the Vomero. During the reconstruction it was modified with defensive works, so much to be called castrum Sancti Erasmi, probably for the presence of a chapel devoted to Saint Erasmo. |
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From the plaza of weapons
and from the slopes it is enjoyed of a suggestive sight of the ancient
center and the bay of Naples: from the ancient Neapolis to
Partenope, with the hold loophole of Spaccanapoli The Castle was not only used as point of defense during the revolt of Masaniello in 1799 but it was also used for imprisoning the revolutionary ones, acquiring a punitive function that has preserved for different years. It was military zone up to 1976, year when the last restauration began, conducted by the Provveditorato to the Public Works with the intent to return it to the city as center of cultural activity. Very interesting are the underground jails and the terraces. It can be visited in case of expositions. |
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Chartreuse of San Martino |
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But we cannot talk about the Castle Sant'Elmo without cite the Chartreuse of San Martin founded in 1325 by Charles duke of Calabria, that wanted it in a dominant position on the city. The first solution was an imposing Gothic construction of which few elements remain today in reason of a radical restructuring with Baroque style in XVII century. Some cracks with bows in Catalan style are still recognizable - which can be found in the ex-refectory probably used as passes foods and founded in a recent restauration. The Chartreuse was consacrated to St. Martino, bishop of Tours, probably for the presence of an ancient preexisting chapel. Toward the half part of XVI century, under the influence of the counter-reformation, the Chartreuse was renewed according to the most modern ideas. A splendid example of the seventeenth-century Neapolitan art is constituted from the Great Cloister, characterized by columns of order Dorico-Tuscan, from the little cemetery of the Carthusian monks, from the statues of the colonnade, from the busts of the saints Carthusian monks on the portals, from the false pit in the center and from numerous fruit trees. |
Great Cloister |
A smaller cloister,
called Cloister of the Attorneys, constitutes the access to the gardens and
to rooms of the National Museum; it has the same proportions of the Great
Cloister, and it has at the middle a pit, made by Felice de Felice. The
apartment of the Prior was decorated by famous Neapolitan painters, and
endowed with a beautiful floor in brick and majolica pottery, still
visible. |
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