Church of Saint Anne 'di Palazzo'

Ancient church of the 14th century. Small but charming.

A jewel in the heart of the Spanish neighborhoods to be known and valued. Special thanks to Sister Paola of the Ephraim center who made me known to her☺

One of the thousand wonders of Naples, Cinderella of the world, dear to connoisseurs only, mistreated by the ignorant and prejudiced. In the center of Naples, with the mistake of being located in the Spanish neighborhoods, rich in treasures not rightly valued and always left in immediate total abandonment.

Beautiful church my parents got married in this church and we children received baptism

Superb Neapolitan Baroque expression to visit

Church with a history behind it .. located in the heart of the Spanish neighborhoods .. a place of worship to visit for tourists and not.

Beautiful church but on the site you can not find mass times ... you have to go there on purpose and the sign is not very visible

Its construction is linked to the victorious battle of Lepanto in 1571 by the Christians against the Turks. In it there are also testimonies of the interventions of the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. It is interesting in this case to make a comparison between the Baroque and Rococo tastes in the decorations. The holy water stoups, the pulpit and the altar in the right transept are works from the 1600s. They are made with polychrome marble and with a great abundance of decorative elements including leaves and scrolls. The decorations of the first order of the central nave and the main altar date from the eighteenth century. Also for these works marble was used, but the colors chosen are much more subdued and the revival of plant motifs is performed according to a much more stylized taste than the seventeenth-century one. The main altar was designed by Vaccaro and built by Giovan Battista Masotti. The clay models of the sculptures, created by Matteo Bottiglieri, are by the same author. Del Masotti are also the four statues of the Dominican popes long attributed to Vaccaro. The coeval sacristy was also built according to the taste and style of Vaccaro. In any case, it is advisable to go to the small square which can be accessed by exiting the apsidal part because the eighteenth-century buildings with stucco decorations, which overlook it, bear witness to the ancient splendor of the area. In this church, Charles of Bourbon had the royal printing house set up.