San Gennaro dei Poveri

The elongated complex rises towards Capodimonte, lying just south of the domed Basilica dell'Incoronata Madre del Buon Consiglio.

Supposedly the then Bishop of Naples, later St Severus of Naples (died 409), transferred the venerated relics of St Januarius, to a church of San Gennaro extra Moenia (San Gennaro outside the walls) located on the northernmost corner of the complex.

[1] Over the following centuries, these relics were divided and moved till they were putatively collected in the Cathedral of San Gennaro in central Naples.

[2] By the 15th century, dissensions within the monastery led to its dissolution, and in 1468 the Cardinal Oliviero Carafa formulated the building into a hospital funded by various neighborhoods.

The narrow four story façade, rising across from the Parco di San Gennaro, with statue filled niches above a large rounded portal leads into an elongated courtyard flanked by parallel wings.