The fresco on the facade of the church allowed the charterhouse dedicated to S. Giacomo to be dated to 1371, establishing that it is the oldest existing building on the island.
The imagination of the contemporary traveler gets lost in the alleys, after crossing Piazza del Plebiscito, touching the Royal Palace, the San Carlo Theater, and Via Toledo, aiming here and there at the surprising green patches of Capodimonte, the vegetable gardens and the Posillipine parks and the coastal cliffs of yellow tuff.