Spaccanapoli

Spaccanapoli is the long, dead-straight street that slices through the historic centre of Naples, following the line of an ancient Greek and Roman thoroughfare. Its name means splitter of Naples, describing the way it cleaves the old city into two halves. Along its length crowd churches, palazzi, artisan workshops and the nativity-figure sellers of Via San Gregorio Armeno. Laundry hangs across the canyon-like street between tall tenements, and shrines glow in every corner. Visitors follow the route past Baroque monuments and street-food stalls.