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Villa Floridiana

Field	Value
name	Villa Floridiana
native_name	Villa Floridiana
native_name_lang	Italian
status	Palace now used as a museum, National Gallery
image	Floridiana 3.jpg
caption	The Villa Floridiana on the Vomero hill in Naples.
embedded	{{designation list	embed=yes
designation1	Italy
designation1_offname	Villa Floridiana
designation1_type	Non-movable
designation1_criteria	Monument
designation1_free1name	State Party
designation1_free1value	Italy
designation1_free2name	Region
building_type	Villa
architectural_style	Neo-Classical
client	Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies
location	Naples, Italy
floor_count	2
architect	Antonio Niccolini
start_date	1817
completion_date	1819

The Villa Floridiana is a monumental house located amid a large park in the Vomero quarter in Naples, southern Italy. It overlooks the western Neapolitan suburbs of Chiaia and Mergellina.

History

Construction of a villa at the site was begun by Cristoforo Saliceti and his heirs; Cristoforo had been minister of police for the government of Joachim Murat. In 1817, they were forced to sell to Ferdinand I, the Bourbon king of the Two Sicilies, who used it to house Lucia Migliaccio di Partanna, duchess of Floridia, whom Ferdinand had married morganatically in 1814. She resided here till her death in 1826.

Between 1817 and 1819, the architect Antonio Niccolini reconstructed the building and the surrounding gardens, landscaping in a free, English-style. The director of the Botanical Gardens, Friedrich Dehnhardt, planted oaks, pines, palms, cypresses and a large selection of flowers in the gardens.

The neoclassical residence and surrounding gardens were built between 1817 and 1819. The villa since 1931 has housed the National Museum of Ceramics, Naples, also called the Museo Duca di Martina. The Duke of Martina, second-born son of Riccardo and Maria Argentina Caracciolo, born in Naples in 1929, but moving to Paris where he began collecting decorative arts. His heirs donated the collection in 1911 to the city of Naples.

Since at least 1953, the gardens have been home to a colony of predominantly black stray cats, which are cared for by volunteers.

References

Legler, Rolf. (1990). "Der Golf von Neapel". DuMont Buchverlag.

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