Via Toledo has spent five centuries arguing with itself about its own name. Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, the Spanish viceroy who ruled Naples for two decades, commissioned the street in 1536 as part of a ruthless makeover: crumbling tenements demolished, roads paved, Castel Sant'Elmo raised nearby. Grand avenue, iron-fisted governor.

Renamed Via Roma after Italian unification in 1870, the street reclaimed its original name in 1980, locals never having let go of the old one. Today its 1.2 kilometres run from Piazza Dante to Piazza Trieste e Trento, past the Toledo metro station, once named Europe's most beautiful, and Piazza Carità, where a monument honours Salvo D'Acquisto, the young Carabiniere shot in 1943 for shielding twenty-two hostages from Nazi reprisal.

VoiceMap's tours follow this street to trace Toledo's fingerprints across Naples, from the Spanish Quarters he built to the balcony where Garibaldi later proclaimed Italian unity.