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Certosa di San Martino
Paintings, presepi, and great views at a monastery-museum high above Naples
Certosa e Museo di San MartinoLargo S. Martino 5/Via T. Angelini (on the Vomero)
tel. +39-081-229-4502
www.polomusealenapoli.beniculturali.it
Open Thurs–Tues 8:30am–7:30pm.
Funicular: Montesanto, then Bus V1 (or walk)
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TOURS OF NAPLES:
Tours of Naples itself:
• Naples City and Pompeii Half Day Sightseeing Tour
• Naples City Hop-on Hop-off Tour
• Small Group Naples City Sightseeing Tour
Tours to Pompeii & Vesuvius:
• Mt Vesuvius and Pompeii Day Trip from Naples
• Pompeii Half-day Trip from Naples
• Naples City and Pompeii Half Day Sightseeing Tour
• Mt Vesuvius Half-Day Trip from Naples
Tours to the Amalfi Coast or Capri:
• Private tour of Sorrento, Positano, Amalfi, and Ravello from Naples
• Capri Day Trip with Lunch from Naples
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This 14th-century Carthusian monastery was baroqued in the 17th century, and is today famous for its fine church, peaceful cloisters, great views, small painting gallery, and remarkable presepio collection of Christmas crèches. What's more, the views across the city below from its perch atop Vomero hill are fantastic.
The marble-clad church has a ceiling painting of the Ascension by Lanfranco in the nave along with 12 Prophets by Giuseppe Ribera, who also did the Institution of the Eucharist on the left wall of the choir (Lanfranco painted the Crucifixion and Guido Reni the Nativity at the choir's back wall). In the church treasury is Luca Giordano's ceiling fresco of the Triumph of Judith (1704) and Ribera's masterful Descent from the Cross.
The vast museum of presepi houses dozens of Neapolitan Christmas crèches with an overall cast of thousands—some holy figures, mostly peasants—that have come out of the workshops of Naples' greatest craftsmen over the past four centuries. (Read more on the art and Neapolitan tradition of presepi.)
The modest painting and sculpture gallery houses 15th- to 18th-century works, including a few by Bernini, Caracciolo, and Vaccaro.
Tips
- Planning your day: Give it an hour, plus time to get up here and back.
Related pages
- On the presepi of Naples
- Castel Sant'Elmo (just across the way)
- More churches in Naples
- More museums in Naples
- Other sights in Naples (the center, the waterfront, the hills)
- Hotels in Naples
- Naples homepage
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