The history of the city of Naples is individually and lovingly intertwined with the cult of the patron saint, so much so that the report, religious and cultural, spreads throughout the world. And around the cult, developed in the city and guarded with piety and pride to this day, the arts flourish, the devotion and the model that the popular soul character, unique and yet so appreciated by literature and world culture.
The relationship of faith and love that binds the people and the city of Naples to the relics of its patron saint, the bishop and martyr Gennaro, which lasts continuously for about sixteen centuries and is a rare example of the intense and heartfelt religiosity of a people.