San Gennaro dei Poveri

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San Gennaro dei Poveri in Naples.
San Gennaro dei Poveri in Naples.

San Gennaro dei Poveri is a hospital in Naples in southern Italy.

Historically, San Gennaro dei Poveri was the first Hospice for the Poor in Naples. It was founded in 1667 and intended to be a great "poor house", a place for at least some of the city's 10,000 mendicant poor at the time. It was a forerunner of the much more ambitious project along the same lines, the gigantic Royal Hospice for the Poor started in the 1750s.

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