Via Toledo

Via Toledo is an ancient street and one of the most important shopping thoroughfares in the city of Naples, Italy.

The street was created by Spanish viceroy Pedro de Toledo, 2nd Marquis of Villafranca in 1536, who entrusted Ferdinando Manlio, an Italian architect.

On 15 May 1848, the street was the scene of the repression of Neapolitan liberals who defended the recently established constitution.

In 2012, "Toledo" metro station opened, and the street became closed to traffic from Via Armando Diaz to Piazza Trieste e Trento.

I will no more forget the Via Toledo than [I will ] the view that one has of all Naples's neighbourhoods: it is, in my opinion, beyond compare: the most beautiful city in the universe."