October 5th, continued...

The Certosa e Museo di San Martino on the very high point of Naples is one of the finest churches best museums I've been to. The chiesa, the church, is incredibly beautiful, with its magnificent inlay of semi precious stone patterns on the floors, alters, and walls, not to mention many magnificent paintings. 

The cloister is a large room and a smaller room of finely detailed wood marquetry scenes on all the walls, with gorgeous paintings above.

A must see, for anyone going to Naples. It doesn't stop there, though. Continue on to the convent gardens, and rooms with non-religious themes. To me the most interesting of these is the gallery of presepe, miniature (but not mini) nativity scenes and depictitions of every day life, back in the 18th century. They are really quite remarkable, and the traditional Napoli craft is a continuing one to this day, albeit not with quite the finesse of these rare pieces on display here.