Late-Victorian shopping-centre of Galleria Umberto I, Via Toledo/Via Roma, Naples, Italy

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Spectacular late-Victorian example of the south-Italian soul; designed by Emanuele Rocco; inaugurated 1890. Renaissance/Baroque ornamentation, marble and mosaic flooring, iron and glass roof; named after the Italian king of the time who was assassinated in 1900. Galleria Umberto I has entrances on Via Toledo/Via Roma and next to the Teatro San Carlo. Situated metres from the Royal Palace, Piazza Trieste e Trento and famous Caffe Gambrinus. Oscar Wilde visited in 1898. Contains shops, offices, cafes and boutiques. The Galleria was built following cholera outbreak to replace squalid, disease-ridden housing as part of Risanamento, or clean-up, of Naples

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Size: 3483px × 5400px
Location: Piazza Trieste e Trento, Via Toledo/Roma, Naples, Italy
Photo credit: © Robin Chapman / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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