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A privileged position, not only for looking at the city, but also for experiencing it in all senses.
The Hotel San Francesco Al Monte is located in a strategic position: being close to the old city centre (just a few minutes by funicular, by taxi or by car), it is the ideal starting point for shopping and visiting monuments and museums, but also quickly reaching out-of-town itineraries and the embarkation points for the islands.
While relaxing in the hotel, the view of Naples surrounding the gulf and Vesuvius completing is sinuous path will make you feel like you have the entire city at hand.
Naples seen from above.
A living postcard with its colours and ferment.
To really see Naples beyond the clichés.
The hotel is the ideal base for visiting Naples.
The Hotel San Francesco Al Monte is an excellent point of departure for reaching internationally-famous places and monuments that belong to the collective imagination and contribute to the uniqueness of the city of Naples. One essential stop is the Old City Centre, the largest open-air museumo in the world.
But Vesuvius, the gulf, the monuments and historical sites like Pompeii and Herculaneum are not the only things to visit: fascinating alternative itineraries are hidden among the narrow streets of the city, with hidden treasures and works of art of incomparable beauty.
Centuries of donations make a priceless treasure.
The Museum of the Treasure of San Gennaro, on Via del Duomo in the old city centre of Naples, holds treasures of inestimable value, including jewelry, silver objects and paintings that popes, kings and ordinary people have donated over the centuries as a sign of devotion to the saint. The museum complex includes the Chapel of the Saint and Sacristy with frescoes by Luca Giordano and paintings by Domenichino and Massimo Stanzione.
The Hotel San Francesco al Monte offers free admission to the museum of San Gennaro to all guests who book through the web site>
The National Archeological Museum, housed in one of the large and most fascinating monumental palazzi of Naples, is the most important arechological museum in Europe.
The museum houses archaeological materials of unique beauty and value from Pompeii and Herculaneum, and bronze statues of great prestige.
Old coins, mosaics and collections of Etruscan, Egyptian and and prehistoric art.
Carriages and crèches on top floor of Naples.
The Museum of San Martino, housed in the Carthusian monastery of the same name, is located on the Vomero hill and offers a unique view over the city of Naples.
The museum is divided into several sections. The most typical and famous are those dedicated to Most; characteristics are known and one dedicated to crèches and carriages.
Do not miss the splendid church of the monastery, one of the best examples of Baroque art /strong> in Naples, the prior's quarters, the cloisters and the gardens.
One of the most mysterious places of Naples: Sansevero Chapel.
The Sansevero Chapel was founded in 1590 and has always been considered a treasure chest containing unique works of beauty and prestige.
It now houses 700 masterpieces and sculptures, as well as examples of anatomical machines.
But the most famous and celebrated work is certainly the Veiled Christ by the young Giuseppe Sammartino, one of the greatest sculptural masterpieces of all time.
A stroll among the majolica tiles of the Cloister of Santa Chiara.
The Museum Complex of Santa Chiara occupies the Franciscan Citadel, as the religious complex of Santa Chiara, with its Basilica and Convent has always been called.
The museum area include the Museum of the Opera, archeological excavations with the remains of the hot spring spa on which the convent was constructed, the hall of the 18th-century crèche, which contains an enchanting example of nativity scene art from the time of Ferdinando IV Bourbon.
Do not miss an opportunity to visit the famous Majolica Cloister, which has recently been restored.
