From border of the walled city to conventual and hospital citadel. Memory and transformation of an urban area, to the north of Naples acropolis (15th–19th)

From the fifteenth century the hermits of the Order of Pietro from Pisa settled on the edge of Naples between the acropolis and the northern walls, and contributed to give a religious vocation to this area. In 1519 the Incurabili hospital was also established by Maria Lorenza Longo, from Spain. In this urban area, extending from via Pisanelli (Decumano Superior), vico San Gaudioso, via Maria Longo and via Luciano Armanni, there is a concentration of convent and hospital buildings, among which we focus on the convent of Santa Maria Regina Coeli. Here the historical and artistic characteristics of the Renaissance to Late Baroque are very clearly visible.