Historic centreNaples
The neighbourhood:
ALLEYS
SQUARES
Step out of the door and you are already inside Naples. Piazza Dante is 190 metres away, Spaccanapoli a few steps further.
Kind Places is on the top floor of an eighteenth-century palazzo, right where the city is most alive. The Spanish Quarter climbs on one side, Via Toledo runs close by, and every alley leads to a church, a bar, a square. You are in the absolute centre, yet close the door and the quiet comes back.
At the table:
TASTE
AROMA
COLOUR
The real Naples is right downstairs: espresso at the counter, folded pizza to go, a warm sfogliatella in the morning. Casa Lazzarone, Bellini 9 and the tables of Piazza Bellini are a few metres away; the rest you find by following the scent.
In the room, the coffee corner is ready: your first cup of the day without stepping outside, before you head down into the alleys.
Architecture:
NAPLES
FORM
LIGHT
«You don't visit Naples, you walk through it: every doorway is a different century.»
A few steps from the door stand the Cappella Sansevero with its Veiled Christ, the cloister of Santa Chiara, the domes of the old town. Kind Places lives inside this layering: an eighteenth-century palazzo with its staircases, high ceilings and the light that enters from the balconies and shifts through the day.
Culture:
ROOTS
CULTURE
«On San Gregorio Armeno it's Christmas all year round, and the city never stops telling its own story.»
San Gregorio Armeno with its nativity workshops, the stalls of Spaccanapoli, the National Archaeological Museum a short walk away: Naples is a city passed on by voice and by hand. Kind Places gathers that spirit and carries it into the suites, where neon signs and contemporary design speak with the old palazzo.
Kind Places.
The neon sign that gives the house its name: the contemporary signature of an eighteenth-century palazzo in the heart of the old town.
Inside the suite.
