Italy - Naples - Jesus edicola shrine

Religious edicola (aedicula votiva) shrine featuring Jesus and the Madonna, Naples, Italy. On a street corner in the city, whose urban area has a population of 3.7 million, and is the 9th-most populous urban area in the European Union. Around 4 million people live in the Naples metropolitan area, one of the largest metropolises on the Mediterranean Sea. It is also within the administrative evacuation zone should the nearby Vesuvius volcano erupt again, as it last did in 1944. Naples has a total of 448 historical churches, making it one of the most Catholic cities in the world in terms of the number of places of worship.

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Religious edicola (aedicula votiva) shrine featuring Jesus and the Madonna, Naples, Italy. On a street corner in the city, whose urban area has a population of 3.7 million, and is the 9th-most populous urban area in the European Union. Around 4 million people live in the Naples metropolitan area, one of the largest metropolises on the Mediterranean Sea. It is also within the administrative evacuation zone should the nearby Vesuvius volcano erupt again, as it last did in 1944. Naples has a total of 448 historical churches, making it one of the most Catholic cities in the world in terms of the number of places of worship.