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Santa Maria del Faro is a church in the quartiere of 
A church was founded here in the 13th century, and restored in the 18th century using designs by
Exterior of Church
Posillipo
Posillipo (; nap, Pusilleco ) is an affluent residential quarter of Naples, southern Italy, located along the northern coast of the Gulf of Naples.
From the 1st century BC the Bay of Naples witnessed the rise of villas constructed by elite Roma ...
of Naples
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...
, Italy.
A church was founded here in the 13th century, and restored in the 18th century using designs by Ferdinando Sanfelice
Ferdinando Sanfelice (1675 – 1 April 1748) was an Italian late Baroque architect and painter.
Sanfelice was born in Naples and died there. He was one of the principal architects in Naples in the first half of the 18th century. He was a studen ...
and under the patronage of the Mazza family. The Baroque church incorporates small fragments of Roman sarcophagi. It contains fragments of the Roman Villa of ''Pausylipon'', which was the site of a Roman lighthouse; hence the name ''Santa Maria del Faro'', "Saint Mary
Mary; arc, ܡܪܝܡ, translit=Mariam; ar, مريم, translit=Maryam; grc, Μαρία, translit=María; la, Maria; cop, Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ, translit=Maria was a first-century Jews, Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Saint Joseph, Jose ...
of the lighthouse".
Bibliography
*''Napoli e dintorni'', Touring club Italia, Touring Editore, 2001.Exterior of Church
References
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