Villa Floridiana

Naples, Italy

The Villa Floridiana dates from 1816 when Ferdinand I of the House of Bourbon, King of the Two Sicilies, acquired the property. Between 1817 and 1819 the architect Antonio Niccolini reconstructed the building and the surrounding gardens. The director of the Botanical Gardens, Friedrich Dehnhardt, planted oaks, pines, palms, cypresses and a large selection of flowers in the gardens.

The King then donated the property as the site for a vacation residence to his morganatic wife, Lucia Migliaccio Partanna, duchess of Floridia, from which the villa has taken its name. The neoclassical residence and surrounding gardens were built between 1817-19. The Villa currently houses the National Museum of Ceramics, Naples.

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Via Domenico Cimarosa 77, Naples, Italy

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Founded: 1816
Category: Palaces, manors and town halls in Italy

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User Reviews

Barbara Szymonowicz (2 years ago)
Beautiful hidden place with amazing view on seaside. Wonderful garden with pond with turtles

Danielle Starmer (3 years ago)
The museum was closed! Although we walked through the gardens and to the edge of the garden where we found a GREAT view of naples!

Yasin Aka (5 years ago)
nice and relax park in Napoli

Christina Celes (5 years ago)
animal abuse!! I think its shameful that the turtles don’t have enough shade and islands to be able to lay down especially since the weather is so hot!!

Franiusia Elizka (6 years ago)
It was such a lovely park (dont know museum) full of cats and in small water point a lot of survived turtles! There is also a view for the city!

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