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2. The Basilica of San Francesco di Paola is one of the most characteristic and famous churches of Naples is located in the center of the curved side of the square of the Plebiscite in front of the Palazzo Reale is the most important period of Italian church neoclassicoStoriaNel 1809 Joachim Murat ordered the demolition of the ancient monasteries of the "Largo di Palazzo", the current square of the Plebiscite, and announced a public competition to design a new square. Lapera architect Leopold was responsible for formulating the large semi-circular portico supported by 38 giant columns of the Doric order, it had to face the Royal Palace and to refer to the ancient tradition of arcaded squares, place of political, economic, social and cultural buildings . In 1815, King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies decided to build the church as a thanksgiving to St. Francis of Paola for the reconquest of the kingdom in 1817 was announced a new competition, which was won by Swiss architect Pietro Bianchi di Lugano, which showed the great qualities of the new church construction engineering, attested to the strength and intelligence work of the technical work was completed in 1824, but in 1836 the church was consecrated by Pope Gregory XVI, who gave it the title of Basilica, made independent by the Archbishop of Naples and the privilege granted to his ministers to officiate with the altar facing the fedeli.Esterno The church, for its round shape, reminiscent of the Pantheon in Rome. The façade is preceded by a portico of six columns and two Ionic columns, supporting a lintel on which is carved the inscription "DOMD FRANCISCO DE PAULA Ferdinandus The EX RATE MDCCCXVI. "The porch is surmounted by a classical pediment, at whose corners are placed the statues of the religion, including San Francesco di Paola on the left, owner of the church, and St. Ferdinand, right, honor of King Ferdinand. The porch is accessible from the porch, the staircase that rises from the square. In the portico are the statues of the four cardinal virtues and three theological virtues, while the sides of the staircase should be placed two statues of the Pieta and Constance, which symbolized the virtues manifested by the king and Ferrante d'Aragona: in their instead it was decided instead to place the two equestrian statues in the square, depicting King Ferdinand (the work of Antonio Canova) and his father, Charles III of Spain (by Antonio Cali). The church is surmounted by three domes: the central, high 53 meters, was built on a high and wide tamburo.Interno You enter a foyer, flanked by two chapels on the right is an early work of Luca Giordano, Sant'Onofrio Orante.Al center with the round, 34 m in diameter, is covered by a dome supported by 34 Corinthian columns 11 m high with stems Mondragone marble, alternating with as many pilastri.Sopra the colonnade there are the stands of the court and along the walls, from right, eight statues: St. John Chrysostom by Gennaro Cali, Sant'Ambrogio di Tito Angelini, Antonio Cali of St. Luke, St. Matthew, Carlo Finelli, San Giovanni Evangelista, Pietro Tenerani, San Marco di Giuseppe de Fabris, St. Augustine Arnaud Thomas and St. Athanasius Angelo Solani.Agli altars of the chapels are, from right, the following paintings: St. Nicholas of Tolentino and San Francesco di Paola, which receives from the arms of an angel love, Nicole Card, the Last Communion of St. Ferdinand of Castile Peter Welcome to the Transit of San Giuseppe di Camillo Gerra, the Virgin Mary and St. Andrew Avellino death of Thomas de Vivo.Di front of the entrance is the main altar, the work of Anselm of Cangiano 1641, moved here in 1835 from the Church of the Holy Apostles, full of lapis lazuli and gemstones. On either side two angels in papier Theophorus dorata.Nell 'apse of San Francesco di Paola resurrects a dead man, a painting by Vincent Camuccini. In the sacristy, the Immaculate Gaspare Landi and Circumcision of Antonio Campi.

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