MON REALE - SICILY Visiting a good church or cathedral is more often than not an uplifting experience on all sorts of levels. Historical in...

  NAPLES - CHIOSTRO DI SANTA CHIARA Our last Neapolitan visit was to the huge convent complex of Saint Claire. It was lunchtime so the churc...

  SAN GREGORIO ARMENO, NAPLES. Armenian nuns founded this church in Naples in the 8th century, having fled Byzantium with the relics of St G...

The Italians love their "presepe" - model nativity scenes and they've been made in Naples since at least the 18th century. In ...

CHIESA SAN LORENZO MAGGIORE, NAPOLI. Naples boasts a huge number of churches with amazing, well preserved historic interiors. Together they ...