Luogo - Religious building
Chiesa di Santa Lucia a Mare
Where
Via San Lucia, 1-7, Napoli
The Basilica-Sanctuary is located in the district of Saint Lucy, in the historic center of Naples. Always pilgrimage tradition has it that it was founded by a nephew of Emperor Constantine, but there is no news of the building before the ninth century. The first to occupy it were the Basilian monks. In 1845, the reorganization of the road caused the burying of the sixteenth century Church, which was built on the current one, then bombed in 1943 and rebuilt after the war, according to the plant of the Church of the nineteenth century. On the main altar there is a valuable statue eighteenth century by Nicola Fumo, depicting Saint Lucy; in the choir, a panel of the Rosary, by Teodoro d'Errico (1588).
