The catacombs of San Gaudioso alla Sanità
Le Catacombs of San Gaudioso I'm a real one necropolis located under the Basilica of Santa Maria della Sanità, and represent the second most important early Christian cemetery in the city after the Catacombs of San Gennaro.
These catacombs are named after Gaudioso the African, bishop of Abitine (Tunisia) who came to Naples by pure chance. Following the invasion of the Vandals he did not want to convert to Arianism, so King Genserico boarded it on a ship without sails or oars along with other Christian exiles. When he died, between the 451 and 453 AD, the place of his burial became a cult and from that area began to expand the paleochristian hypogeum cemetery.
Besides the remains of the saint, the catacombs also welcome Paleochristian and seventeenth century elements, frescoes and mosaics of the V-VI century and some tombs reserved for nobles, dating back to the seventeenth century. XVI century a fresco of the Madonna up to then covered by the mud was found here: it is the Madonna of Health (V - VI century), the oldest representation of Mary in Campania.
Information on the catacombs of San Gaudioso in Naples
Opening time
From Monday to Sunday and holidays from 10.00 to 13.00 (last entry 13 hours: 00)
price tickets
- Full 9,00 €
- Under 18 5,00 €
- Students / Over 65 / Law Enforcement 6,00 €
- Under 6 Free
- Unlike Skilled Free and Accompanying 6,00 €
- Groups (min 20 participants) from 6,00 €
- Schools from 4,00 €
The admission ticket for the Catacombs of San Gennaro can also be used to visit the Catacombs of San Gaudioso within 12 months.
Address
The entrance is from the Basilica of Santa Maria della Sanità, in Piazza Sanità 14.
How to Get There:
By bus
From National Museum: 168, 178, C63, R4 lines. Get off at the Basilica Incoronata - Catacombe San Gennaro stop
By car:
Exit of the Naples Capodimonte ring road.
Turn right into via Capodimonte. The Basilica is on the right after 200 meters.
There is free parking.
By subway
- Line Museum Station 1, take one of the bus lines: 168, 178, C63, R4. Get off at the Basilica Incoronata - Catacombe San Gennaro stop
- Cavour station 2 line, arrive at the National Museum on foot and take one of the bus lines: 168, 178, C63, R4. Get off at the Basilica Incoronata - Catacombe San Gennaro stop
Contacts
Cell: 081 744 37 14
Email: prenotazioni@catacombedinapoli.it
