Charterhouse of St. Martin Certosa San Martino (2 ours)    

The history of the monastery began about 700 years ago, in the Anjou Gothic period. It is located in the most picturesque place, the hill of Campanora (zone Vomero), near the castle of the fortress of Sant'Elmo, and dominates not only the Bay of Naples, but also the the inner part of the region. From a small and modest monastery in course of time it turned into the richest and one of the largest Cartesian monasteries.
His abbots were people of high culture and discriminating taste. As a result, the monastery in its entirety represents a masterpiece of Baroque style. Here worked well-known architects like Tino di Camaino, Cosimo Fanzago (almost 30 years), etc. It was Fanzago, a master of inlaid marble. transformed monastery. The walls are decorated with frescoes, paintings, sculptures of the most famous masters. Here, our eyes will be pleased to see the pictures of Belisario Corencio and Batistello Caracciolo, Massimo Stanzione and De Ribera, Guido Reni, Luca Giordano, as well as Vaccaro, Solimena and many others. Lanfranco frescoed the dome. Marble sculptures are by Pietro Bernini, Michelangelo Naccherino, Giuseppe Sanmartino. In the Chapel of the treasure are the masterpieces of the work of Giuseppe de Ribera and Luca Giordano. Here you can stroll in the cloisters of monks of the 16th and 17th centuries, its gallery is formed by 16 columns of the Tuscan Doric order that surround the Cartesian cemetery with a decorative well (under it there is a magnificent engineering work, a reservoir for collecting water) in the center and a fruit garden. Statues are installed in the gallery, and busts of saints are on the cloister’s portals. The atmosphere on this beautiful island of Neapolitan art is really special, calm, you can not believe that you are in Naples with it’s noise and bustle. Through this courtyard there is a path to the gardens and the halls of the National Museum. The museum of the Cartesian monastery was founded in 1866. It contains items and documents telling about the history of the Neapolitan kingdom from the Aragon period, with the unique "Strozzi Painting" where we can see the first image of the city in the history; there are rooms dedicated to the theater and costume history. Also there is a paintings gallery of artists' 800. In the department of Christmas presepe (Nativity scene), this reproduction of scenes associated with the birth of Christ with the use of ceramic figures, you can see the most famous presepe “Presepe Cuciniello" - a masterpiece of the Neapolitan traditional sculptural genre, there are about 800 figurines here. And there are also examples of old carriages and pleasure ships of the Bourbon dynasty and much more.