CHURCH OF MONTEOLIVETO (SANT'ANNA DEI LOMBARDI), Introduction

Hi, I'm Debbie, your personal guide. Together with MyWoWo, I'd like to welcome you to one of the wonders of the world.

Today I'll accompany you through Monteoliveto, one of the most impressive churches in Naples!

You're a stone's throw away from Toledo Street, at the edge of the Spanish Quarter, and you've just begun to walk along the slightly uphill, straight road called Via Monteoliveto. The fifteenth-century Palazzo Gravina and its Renaissance courtyard give you an idea of the monumental area you're now entering.  You can start to see the arcades of a porticoed cloister with a loggia: these are the ruins of the ancient convent of the Olivetans. Behind a pretty Baroque fountain crowned by the statue of a child king in an irregularly-shaped clearing, you can see the deep arches of Monteoliveto Church open up before you....