The Basilica of Santa Maria della Sanità in Naples was designed by Giuseppe Nuvolo on a centralized Greek-cross plan, and built from 1602 to 1613. It was attached to a Dominican monastery founded in 1577, and the article names no client. The text describes Baroque elements, including spiral staircases to the main altar.
The elevated main altar is reached by two flanking staircases of polychrome marble, and the marble pulpit dates from 1677 to 1705. A crypt beneath the altar has frescoes by Bernardino Fera.
The site was a paleochristian chapel, the supposed burial place of San Gaudioso, a North African bishop who died in Naples around 451. A 6th-century image of the Madonna and Child uncovered in the 1500s led to the church's founding, though one passage calls the icon 5th-century. The church stands over the Catacombs of San Gaudioso and is a minor basilica. The article gives no hours.
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