In the heart of the historic center of Naples, along via dei Tribunali, you will find the baroque church of Santa Maria delle Anime del Purgatorio ad Arco, known to the Neapolitan people as the church de’ ’e cape ’e morte.

The rooms of the church of Santa Maria delle Anime del Purgatorio ad Arco, which follow one another behind the apse and the underground church with the adjacent hypogeum form the Museum of the Pious Work Purgatorio ad Arco.

Upon crossing the threshold, a real journey into Neapolitan culture between art, faith, life, death begins. From the small and beautiful 17th-century church, which houses the precious marbles and the Winged Skull of Dionisio Lazzari, along with masterpieces by Massimo Stanzione, Luca Giordano, and Andrea Vaccaro, you descend into the ancient and grand hypogeum that still hosts the fascinating cult devoted to anonymous human remains that become special intermediaries for invocations, prayers, requests for intercessions. A small museum set up in the spaces of the elegant sacristy completes the itinerary.