Originally a marketplace, Piazza Dante is a large square on Via Toledo. There is a nice monument of Dante Alighieri, the great poet and father of the Italian language.
The eastern side of the square is dominated by a large building with two curved wings. Under the clock is the huge entrance of the Convitto Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele II. It was once the convent of San Sebastiano but after the Jesuit order was abolished, it became a boarding school.
As we were going to the Duomo, we passed through the Port'Alba, one of the original city gates of Naples and continued eastwards to the Via dei Tribunali.