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An ideal itinerary to get to know the symbolic places of the cult of one of the most beloved saints. We start from Pozzuoli, from the Flavian Amphitheatre where San Gennaro and his martyrdom companions are led to be mauled, but once in the arena the beasts refuse to attack the Christians gathered in prayer. The sentence was only postponed: the Solfatara, amidst the sulphurous vapours rising from the mud and thermal water pools, was the scene of the Saint's martyrdom, and the nearby Sanctuary of San Gennaro alla Solfatara is dedicated to him, where the stone on which he was beheaded is kept. The second stop is Naples, where the mortal remains and reliquary ampoules containing the blood of the city's patron saint were moved between 413 and 431. From the Paleochristian catacombs of Capodimonte, to the Baroque triumph of the Chapel of San Gennaro in the Neapolitan cathedral, an ex voto in thanksgiving for having escaped the plague in 1527, where on 19 September (the day of his martyrdom) the prodigy of the melting of his blood takes place. The devotion of the people to the Saint, without distinction of social class or wealth, is witnessed over the centuries by the incredible collection of the Museum of the Treasure of San Gennaro: a priceless treasure of jewellery, silver statues, furniture and precious fabrics. The tour ends at another of the symbolic places of Neapolitan religiosity: the church of Santa Chiara, where every year on the Saturday before the first Sunday in May, at the end of a procession involving all the patron saints of Naèploi, the miracle of the melting of blood is 'repeated'.