Mercato (Italian for "market") is a neighbourhood or of

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, southern Italy. It is in the southeastern part of the city, bounded by the industrial port of Naples on the south. At the centre of the area is the Piazza del Mercato or "market square", the medieval marketplace of the city. At the apex of the half-moon of the piazza is the church of Santa Croce e Purgatorio al Mercato. Visible to the east and west respectively are the belltowers and parts of the façade of

Sant'Eligio Maggiore Sant’Eligio Maggiore is a church in Naples, southern Italy. It is located near Piazza Mercato, Naples, Piazza Mercato (Market Square), and was built during the reign of Charles of Anjou by the same congregation that built the nearby Sant’Elig ...

and the church of Santa Maria del Carmine. The square was the site of the execution of

Conradin Conrad III (25 March 1252 – 29 October 1268), called ''the Younger'' or ''the Boy'', but usually known by the diminutive Conradin (, ), was the last direct heir of the House of Hohenstaufen. He was Duke of Swabia (1254–1268) and nominal King ...

. It was also where Masaniello's revolt broke out and also the site of the executions after the royalist retaking of the kingdom after the fall of the

Neapolitan Republic of 1799 The Parthenopean Republic (, ) or Neapolitan Republic () was a short-lived, semi-autonomous republic located within the Kingdom of Naples and supported by the French First Republic. The republic emerged during the French Revolutionary Wars after ...

. The area was somewhat cut off from the rest of the city, inland, by the urban renewal () of the early 1900s.* F. M. Snowden, 1995: ''Naples in the Time of Cholera 1884-1911''. CUP
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Also, it was severely damaged by bombings in World War II. It is currently (2006) in the midst of ambitious development.

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* ''Napoli e i Luoghi Celebri delle sue Vicinanze'', Napoli 184
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