Editing Naples (section)

=== UNESCO World Heritage Site ===
{{Infobox UNESCO World Heritage Site
| WHS = Historic Centre of Naples
| Image = Napoli - piazza San Domenico Maggiore e guglia.jpg
| Criteria = Cultural: ii, iv
| ID = 726
| Year = 1995
| Area = 1,021 ha
| Buffer_zone = 1,350 ha
}}
[[File:Il Palazzo reale (cropped).jpg|thumb|[[Royal Palace of Naples]]]]
Naples' 2,800-year history has left it with a wealth of historical buildings and monuments, from medieval castles to classical ruins, and a wide range of culturally and historically significant sites nearby, including the [[Palace of Caserta]] and the Roman ruins of [[Pompeii]] and [[Herculaneum]]. In 2017 the [[BBC]] defined Naples as "the Italian city with too much history to handle".<ref>Craig, E., [https://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170309-a-city-with-too-much-history-to-handle A city with too much history to handle] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126055150/http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170309-a-city-with-too-much-history-to-handle |date=26 January 2021 }}, ''BBC Global News Ltd.'', published 20 March 2017, accessed 17 February 2023</ref>

The most prominent forms of architecture visible in present-day Naples are the [[Medieval architecture|Medieval]], [[Renaissance architecture|Renaissance]] and [[Baroque architecture|Baroque]] styles.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.inaples.it/eng/pianta_stratificata.htm |publisher=INaples.it |title=Historical centre |date=7 October 2007 |access-date=22 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510113517/http://www.inaples.it/eng/pianta_stratificata.htm |archive-date=10 May 2012}}</ref> Naples has a total of 448 historical churches (1000 in total<ref>[http://www.ilgiornaledellarte.com/articoli/2012/7/114021.html Ilgiornaledellarte.com] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130815042531/http://www.ilgiornaledellarte.com/articoli/2012/7/114021.html |date=15 August 2013 }}</ref>), making it one of the most Catholic cities in the world in terms of the number of places of worship.<ref name="churches" /> In 1995, the [[Historic Centre of Naples|historic centre of Naples]] was listed by [[UNESCO]] as a [[World Heritage Site]], a United Nations programme which aims to catalogue and conserve sites of outstanding cultural or natural importance to the [[common heritage of mankind]].
{{blockquote|Naples is one of the most ancient cities in Europe, whose contemporary urban fabric preserves the elements of its long and eventful history. The rectangular grid layout of the ancient Greek foundation of Neapolis is still discernible. It has indeed continued to provide the layout for the present-day Historic Centre of Naples, one of the major Mediterranean port cities. From the Middle Ages to the 18th century, Naples was a focal point in terms of art and architecture, expressed in its ancient forts, the royal ensembles such as the Royal Palace of 1600, and the palaces and churches sponsored by the noble families.|[[UNESCO]]'s Criterion|}}