Welcome to the site Napoliforme

It bears the name of Luigi Luzzatti, the promoter of the Istituto Case Popolari, who built the district in the eastern part of the city (1922-1930) - in Gianturco, not far from the railway line tunnel - an area of ponds and marshes, 'il Pascone', which had to be reclaimed. The district is made up of regular streets, squares around which the buildings are distributed and gardens.The buildings, destroyed or damaged by bombing in 1942, were restored after the war, except for the stadium: the Ascarelli district was created on the rubble at the end of the 1950s, and the adjoining districts were known as Rione Luzzatti-Ascarelli. A number of buildings were restored, the "Quattro Giornate" school, the library now dedicated to Agostino Collina, a teacher in those years, the gardens, carefully designed and selected with maples, willows, magnolias, eucalyptus, palms and holm oaks, and the district's historic church, San Giuseppe dei Falegnami of the Parrocchia della Sacra Famiglia, was restored.Built in 1937 and entrusted to the Giuseppini Fathers of the Holy Family, it is covered and decorated with polychrome marble and works of art (paintings and sculptures, 16th-19th century) from the church of S. Giuseppe Maggiore (16th century) in the town centre, demolished in 1934. The district is the setting for Elena Ferrante's novels L'amica geniale (2011) and its sequels (2012, 2013, 2014). The successful television series (2018) based on the novels 'reconstructs' the Rione Luzzatti of the 1950s: you can recognise the yellow tufa buildings with their basements, the school attended by the two protagonists, the church where Lila Cerullo got married, the gardens and the Gianturco tunnel.Rione Luzzatti-Ascarelli is the Rione dei murales, an important artistic redevelopment programme; in 2019 the artist Luis Gomez de Teran dedicated the mural Nientrum importa (Nothing else matters) to L'amica geniale; another work in the murales programme is Metamorfosi (Metamorphosis), by Fabio Petani.