Palazzo Donn'Anna

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  • Address
    Largo Donn'Anna 9, Posillipo
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  • Transport
    bus: 140 to Via Posillipo

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The most famous unfinished palazzo in Posillipo, Palazzo Donn'Anna takes its name from Anna Carafa, for whom it was built as a wedding present from her husband Ramiro Guzman, the Spanish viceroy of Naples. When Guzman hot-footed it back to Spain in 1644 he left his wife heartbroken in Naples. She died shortly afterwards and Cosimo Fanzago gave up the project. The semi-derelict palazzo is not open to the public.

Not far from Palazzo Donn'Anna are the ruins of Villa Hamilton, the former residence of the British ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples. Sir William Hamilton is remembered less as a diplomat than as a wronged husband - his wife Emma was the long-time mistress of Lord Horatio Nelson.