Santa Maria del Carmine in Naples is a Baroque minor basilica of the Archdiocese of Naples. Carmelite friars driven from the Holy Land during the Crusades founded it in the thirteenth century. In 1268 Conradin, the last Hohenstaufen heir, was executed in the adjacent square by Charles I of Anjou. His mother, Elisabeth of Bavaria, founded the church in memory of him and his companion Frederick of Baden, and their remains are still there.
Maximilian II of Bavaria commissioned a statue of Conradin, designed by Thorvaldsen and completed by his pupil Schopf in 1847. Nicola Tagliacozzi Canale did the Baroque interior work in 1755 and 1756, and altarpieces include works by Mattia Preti and Francesco Solimena.
Giuseppe Nuvolo rebuilt the bell tower in the seventeenth century, and it stands 246 feet (75 meters) tall with a maiolica-decorated onion dome.
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