Palazzo Spinelli Di Laurino, Naples
The Palazzo Spinelli di Laurino is a palace, located on the corner of Via Nilo and Via dei Tribunali in central Naples, Italy. A palace at the site was first built in the 15th century, but the present layout, with an elliptical interior courtyard was commissioned by Trojano Spinelli. The courtyard recalls the interior of Palazzo Farnese of Caprarola. The structure is much altered, but still contains in the interior courtyard, a hint of former grandeur with dual ramp staircases, and statuary depicting virtues along rooflines, and a maiolica clock face on a triangular pediment surmounted by a ''Virgin of the Immaculate Conception''. The palace is just north of the Palazzo d’Afflitto, Palazzo del Panormita The Palazzo del Panormita is a Renaissance architecture, Renaissance style palace in central Naples. It rises alongside the narrow via Nilo, near Spaccanapoli (street), via Spaccanapoli, where it is called ''San Biagio dei Librai'', diagonally fr ..., and Palazzo di Ludovi ...
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Via Dei Tribunali, Naples
Via dei Tribunali is a street in the old historic center of Naples, Italy. It was the main '' decumanus'' or Decumanus Maggiore — that is, the main east-west street—of the ancient Greek and then Roman city of Neapolis, paralleled to the south by the lower ''decumanus'' ( Decumano Inferiore, now called Spaccanapoli) and to the north by the upper ''decumanus'' ( Decumano Superiore) (now ''via Anticaglia'' and ''Via della Sapienza''). The three ''decumani'' were (and still are) intersected by numerous north-south cross-streets called ''cardini'', together forming the grid of the ancient city. The modern streets/alleys that overlie and follow the ancient grid of these ancient streets. The length of the modern ''Via dei Tribunali'' was determined by the urban expansion requirements of the Spanish starting in the early 16th century. The street runs from the church of San Pietro a Maiella and adjacent Naples Music Conservatory at the west end of the old city for about three-quarters ...
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