Complesso Monumentale dei
Girolomini

Not far from the Cathedral, on the road which leads from Piazza Cavour to the sea, stands the Chiesa dei Girolamini, called also Gerolomini or Girolomini, the exact name is uncertain.
It was built between 1592 and 1619 to a design by the Florentine architect G. A. Dosio, and belongs to a huge religious complex with two cloisters (now a Cultural Center with a Library and an extremely well-stocked Art Gallery) on a upper storey.
The façade was built to a design by the architect D. Lazzari; it  is decorated with statues by Sammartino.
It was greatly altered by Fuga in 1780.
The aisled church, which has been closed since the 1980 earthquake, still houses paintings by artists from the most celebrated Neapolitan school such as Stanzione, Cavallino, Fanzago and Giordano (St. Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi, Expulsion of the Profaners from the Temple), Azzolino, Santafede and Solimena.
There is no lack of artists from schools of other regions, such as G. Reni (St. Francis, St. John the Baptist, Christening of Jesus), Pietro da Cortona (St. Alexis Moribund), Pomarancio, Dionisio and Jacopo Lazzari.
In the presbytery are the outstanding Angels holding torches by Sammartino.
Inside is in Baroque style, large and luminous, it is divided in three  naves by granites columns.
The ceiling is magnificent, golden in carved wood.

Porticato del Grande Chiostro: (Arcade of the Big Cloister) it contains pictures of the 18th century and a Library-Museum which is one of the most beautiful in Europe.