The macellum
Neapolis's market with bakery, laundry and shops.
Giuseppe Guida โ CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท Dominik Matus โ CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท Josรฉ Luiz โ CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท Argo Navis โ CC BY-SA 4.0
Napoli Sotterranea is a network of aqueducts and war shelters forty metres down, visited by guided tour; this is an archaeological excavation of a Roman market beneath one building โ the first is a tunnel experience, the second legible archaeology.
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A Gothic church over a complete Roman market: San Lorenzo Maggiore on Via dei Tribunali was built by the Angevin French in the thirteenth century, and excavations beneath it uncovered the macellum โ the commercial market of Greek-Roman Neapolis with its pavements, shops and drains. You walk a complete Roman street under the church on its original stones: a bakery with its ovens, a laundry with its basins, a market treasury, shop arcades โ a Greek layer below and a medieval one above, making this the clearest place in Naples to grasp the city's three stacked levels. Above ground the church has a French Gothic nave rare in the south with radiating chapels behind the altar; and in its adjoining cloister Boccaccio, by his own account, first saw Fiammetta, his literary love, in 1336, and wrote what he wrote from it. The attached museum displays the excavation finds.
Neapolis's market with bakery, laundry and shops.
Where he saw Fiammetta in 1336.
Via dei Tribunali 316, Naples