Via Toledo

street, Naples, Italy

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Via Toledo is a bustling street in Naples, Italy, named after the Spanish viceroy Don Pedro di Toledo, who commissioned it in 1536. This thoroughfare is lined with numerous shops and grand churches, flanked by 17th- and 18th-century palazzi that have been adapted for commercial or municipal use. The street passes through the dense center of Naples, with steep alleys climbing towards San Martino, preserving the 17th-century structure of the Spanish Quarter. Via Toledo is interrupted by Piazza Carità, featuring structures from the Fascist and postwar eras, before continuing towards the National Archaeological Museum.1

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Via Toledo
From Piazza Trieste e Trento, the teeming thoroughfare of Via Toledo—named for the Spanish viceroy Don Pedro di Toledo, who laid it out in 1536—passes north into the dense centre of Naples. Its innumerable shops interspersed with grand churches, Via Toledo is banked…
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From Piazza Trieste e Trento, the teeming thoroughfare of Via Toledo—named for the Spanish viceroy Don Pedro di Toledo, who laid it out in 1536—passes north into the dense centre of Naples. Its innumerable shops interspersed with grand churches, Via Toledo is banked…
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