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A CULTURAL ESCAPE ON NAPLES' LIVELIEST DISTRICT The Via dei Cristallini, the Neapolitan street on which the aristocratic di Donato family’s 19th-century palace was built, gives its name to the necropolis, which is referred to as the “Ipogeo dei Cristallini.” Each tomb has an upper chamber, richly decorated, with statues — which archaeologists believe may have been of ancestors — as well as sculpted eggs and pomegranates, symbols of new life and resurrection. The Gorgon Medusa is the only free-standing sculpture in the Greek necropolis in Sanità district, everything else was sculpted out of the bedrock. Necropolis in Naples Reveals the Enduring Influence of Ancient Greece | Greek Reporter