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Naples: Toledo to Chiaia : San Francesco di Paola

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San Francesco di Paola

San Francesco di Paola

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  • The impetus to build this imitation Pantheon came from the Napoleonic king Joachim Murat (1808–15). Completed under the reinstated Bourbon dynasty, the idea was to do away with the chaotic jumble around the palace by recreating a version of the ancient Roman temple to the gods and setting it off with arcades echoing those of St Peter’s. It dominates a semicircular piazza with the Palazzo Reale at the opposite end.

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Piazza del Plebiscito Open 8am–noon, 3:30–6pm Mon–Sat, 8am–1pm Sun Free
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