STREET ART TOUR OF SPANISH QUARTERS: on the footsteps of Maradona

About this tour

A journey through Neapolitan street art dedicated to the city’s great icons and the myth of Maradona

Naples is one of those cities particularly attached to the pivotal icons that have created its identity. It never fails to praise the great Neapolitan figures of history, theater, culture, poetry and soccer who have made this city great.

The Spanish Quarters bears witness to this unconditional love for this human cultural heritage by memorializing these icons with as many as 200 murals scattered in every corner of the neighborhood.

But the Spanish Quarters, in particular, testify even more to the great importance of soccer in Naples and the timeless admiration and love for what has gone down in history as “the hero of Naples”: Diego Armando Maradona.

In fact, football in Naples represents a faith of which Maradona has been and continues to be the god. Sacred and profane also mingle in this in a mystical exaltation of the ‘Pibe de oro’ to whom altars, murals and photos are dedicated.
Continuous pilgrimages by tourists from all over the world make their way daily to Piazza Maradona in the Quartieri Spagnoli, where extends the large mural dedicated to him in the 1990 trophy victory. Today a historic testimony and renewed object of worship after the third and recent national victory.
You cannot come to Naples and miss this tour, because you would miss the true soul of this city.