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Catacombe di San Gaudioso, Naples, Italy : Reviews of Catacombe di San Gaudioso - Yahoo! Travel
The San Gaudioso catacombs are situated beneath the presbitary and the apse of the church of Santa Maria della Sanita. Legend has it that after having been deprive...
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Latest reviews of Catacombe di San Gaudioso, Naples, Italy
, but worth a side trip on the way to Capodimonte or the San Gennaro catacombs. There's a public elevator down to the Piazza Sanita from Corso Amedeo. The entrance setting distinguishes this site, over which spans a splendid Baroque double staircase surmounted by the altar and organpipes of Sant...
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Catacombe di San Gaudioso, Naples | MyTravelGuide.com
“Not the most extensive or impressive of the catacombs of Naples, but worth a side trip on the way to Capodimonte or the San Gennaro catacombs. There's a public elevator down to the Piazza Sanita from Corso Amedeo. The entrance setting distinguishes this site, over which spans a splendid B...
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The Complete Guide to Naples: Sanità and Capodimonte
This catacombs have acquired their fame from the burial there of San Gaudioso, an african bishop from the fifth century AD who was stripped of all of his belongings and set adrift in an old boat, which fortuitously landed at Naples. He set up a monastery and diedaround AD 452. His burial place here ...
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The Catacombs of San Gaudioso
Also present in the Catacombs of San Gaudioso are seventeenth century portraits using the skulls of nobles (see above). In the 1600s, nobles subscribed to a funerary practice which, by modern standards, is morbid, to say the least. The deceased would be placed in a niche dug into the volcanic stone ...
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