San Francesco di Paola
San Francesco di Paola is a prominent church located to the west in Piazza del Plebiscito, the main square of Naples, Italy. The construction started in 1816 and ended in 1846.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Church
- Denomination: Catholic
- Description: church building in Naples, Italy
- Also known as: “San Francesco di Paola, Naples”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Teatro di San Carlo and Piazza del Plebiscito.
Teatro di San Carlo
Theater building
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Real Teatro di San Carlo, as originally named by the Bourbon monarchy but today known simply as the Teatro San Carlo, is a historic opera house in Naples, Italy, connected to the Royal Palace and adjacent to the Piazza del Plebiscito. Teatro di San Carlo is situated 260 metres northeast of San Francesco di Paola.
Piazza del Plebiscito
Square
Photo: Wolfgang Pehlemann, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
Piazza del Plebiscito is a large public square in central Naples, Italy.
Galleria Umberto I
Shopping center
Photo: MiguelHermoso, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Galleria Umberto I is a public shopping gallery in Naples, southern Italy. It is located directly across from the San Carlo opera house. It was built between 1887 and 1890, and was the cornerstone in the decades-long rebuilding of Naples—called the risanamento —that lasted until World War I. Galleria Umberto I is situated 350 metres northeast of San Francesco di Paola.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include San Ferdinando and Quartieri Spagnoli.
San Ferdinando
Suburb
Quartieri Spagnoli
Neighborhood
Photo: Jeroen Bennink, CC BY 2.0.
Quartieri Spagnoli is an area of the city of Naples, Italy. The area, encompassing c. 800,000 square metres, consists of a grid of around eighteen streets by twelve, including a population of some 14,000 inhabitants.
Montecalvario
Suburb
Photo: Baku, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Montecalvario is a neighbourhood of Naples, southern Italy. The area centers roughly on the square called Piazza Carità and the metal monument to Salvo D'Acquisto at the northern end of the Quartieri Spagnoli of the city; the area stretches along the main…
San Francesco di Paola
- Categories: minor basilica, building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Municipalità 1, Naples, Metropolitan Naples, Campania, Southern Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
40.83558° or 40° 50′ 8″ northLongitude
14.24774° or 14° 14′ 52″ eastOpen location code
8FGPR6PX+63OpenStreetMap ID
way 27182810OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=basilicaOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=catholicWikidata ID
Q241410
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Tagalog—“San Francesco di Paola” goes by many names.
- Basque: “San Frantzisko Paolakoa basilika”
- Chinese: “保罗圣芳济圣殿”
- Chinese: “保罗圣芳济教堂”
- Croatian: “San Francesco di Paola”
- Czech: “Bazilika svatého Františka z Pauly”
- Dutch: “Koninklijke en pauselijke basiliek Franciscus van Paola”
- Dutch: “San Francesco di Paola”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كنيسه القديس فرنسيس پولا”
- French: “basilique San Francesco di Paola”
- French: “Basilique San Francesco di Paola”
- German: “San Francesco di Paola”
- Greek: “Βασιλική Σαν Φραντσέσκο ντι Πάολα”
- Hungarian: “San Francesco di Paola”
- Indonesian: “Basilika Santo Francesco di Paola, Napoli”
- Italian: “basilica di San Francesco di Paola”
- Italian: “Basilica reale pontificia di San Francesco di Paola”
- Italian: “chiesa di San Francesco di Paola”
- Korean: “산 프란체스코 디 파올라 성당”
- Neapolitan: “Baseleca ’e San Francisco ’e Paola”
- Neapolitan: “Basilica di San Francesco di Paola”
- Portuguese: “Basílica de São Francisco de Paula”
- Romanian: “Bazilica Sfântul Francisc de Paola din Napoli”
- Russian: “Церковь Сан-Франческо ди Паола (Неаполь)”
- Russian: “Церковь Сан-Франческо ди Паола”
- Slovenian: “Cerkev sv. Frančiška Paolskega, Neapelj”
- Spanish: “basilica de San Francisco de Paula”
- Spanish: “basílica de San Francisco de Paula”
- Spanish: “Basílica de San Francisco de Paula”
- Tagalog: “San Francesco di Paola, Napoles”
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