Piazza Dante (Naples)

Piazza Dante is a large public square in Naples, Italy, named for the poet Dante Alighieri. The square is dominated by a 19th-century statue of the poet, sculpted by Tito Angelini. Originally, the square was called, simply, Largo del Mercatello (Market Square). In 1765, it was rechristened "Foro Carolina," after the wife of the King of Naples. At that time, the original square was modified by architect Luigi Vanvitelli. Modifications included the construction of an ornate semicircular arrangement of columns and statues that now look down on the square. They now mark the western side of a boarding school named for Victor Emanuel II. Vanvitelli, with his changes, essentially converted what had been the rear of a large, pre-existing and ancient monastery into the front of the "new" structure.


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1 June 2019
From 1750 until the French Revolution, the king of France took the place of Dante’s statue
Harvey Thomason
24 December 2015
Look out the caffe is 2 euros here! There's always action in Dante, people, candy, pigeons, couples, markets (but seriously look out for those pigeons)
Martin Heidegger
18 February 2020
Huge Piazza. Like, Huge. Really. From there you can enter the tiny streets of the historic centre of Naples
Laura Barrera
10 September 2018
Como corresponde con una plaza que lleva el nombre de una de las cumbres de la literatura universal, encuentra aquí infinidad de vendedores de libros nuevos o de ocasión, a muy buenos precios.
Antonio Manfredonio
13 March 2014
Piazza Dante è sita nel centro storico cittadino. Costituisce l'inizio di via Toledo e, tramite l'accesso a Port'Alba sul lato nord della piazza, la stessa confluisce lungo il Decumano Maggiore.
TIM_Official
21 June 2012
Vai nel Negozio TIM in via Pessina 23/24 e chiedi a cartolina per partecipare alla Live Session di Emis Killa in programma il 27 luglio a Napoli. Altre info suhttp://www.timyoung.it/musiclive
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