Near Piazza Castello, crossing Via della Giudecca, is a scenic area of ​​the old town consisted of narrow alleys and courtyard houses, for the most part still whitewashed, following the traditional use of lime, linked to hygienic and sterilizing potentialities of milk of lime. The neighborhood is built around Via Santa Maria del Foggiaro leading to Via delle Muraglie. It deals with the old Jewish neighborhood of Alessano, where the presence of this resourceful community is attested from the 14th century until the beginning of the 16th, when the Jews left the Regno di Napoli following the edicts of expulsion of Ferdinando il Cattolico in 1510 and Charles V in 1541. In the area of ​​Via della Giudecca was their meeting place, the Synagogue, destroyed as a result of the edict of 1510 ...