Ribbed steel-and-glass roof 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 flooring, steel 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 Royal Palace 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: 5459px × 3600px
Location: Via Roma(/Via Toledo, Naples, Campania, Italy
Photo credit: © Robin Chapman / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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