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Painters, architects, sculptors and archaeologists have written wonderful pages on the basilica of<\/strong> San Lorenzo Maggiore in Naples<\/strong>. It is here, in the heart of the city of Naples, that the two souls of the city of Virgil and St. Gennaro join together, creating an amalgam of rare beauty. “It’s a monument to books. In the complex of San Lorenzo Maggiore<\/strong> one can read the history of Naples in clear letters. The Dna of Naples is to be found here\u201d said Master Riccardo Muti<\/strong>, before a concert. This phrase perfectly describes the “pretty and beautiful temple” as Boccaccio<\/strong> called it. The \u00a0famous poet met Fiammetta<\/strong>, his inspiring muse, for the first time in this church in 1334 and always here, a few years later, Petrarch<\/strong> lived for a while.<\/p>\n The monumental complex of Piazza San Gaetano<\/strong>, which attracts thousands of visitors each year and hosts important events, represents a kind of “trait d’union”, a rare example of the continuity of life, which testimonies the plurisecular life of Naples<\/strong>. Above, stands the thirteenth-century church founded by Carlo d’Angi\u00f2<\/strong>. At the bottom,\u00a0 lies what remains of an ancient Greek-Roman settlement. At the centre, as a symbolic “watershed”, are the ruins of a building dating back to the Norman domination. Three superimposed periods, joined into a unique, precious casket, to be discovered from top to bottom.<\/p>\n Near the eighteenth-century cloister of the basilica, is it possible to admire the ruins of the ancient Roman Macellum<\/strong> in the\u00a0archaeological site of San Lorenzo Maggiore<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/strong>The structure was arranged on terraces and has, in its center, a circular colonnade (tholos).<\/p>\n