Naples, Italy - Posillipo and Donn Anna Palace
Naples, Italy - Posillipo (a residential quarter) and the Villa Donn'Anna (Lady Anne's palace). This building is on the site of the so-called Rocks of the Siren and was originally called La Villa Sirena'. It changed hands a number of times, finally being inherited in 1630 by the woman whose name it now bears, Anna Stigilano, who then married the Spanish viceroy of Naples. She had the building re-modelled by the architect Cosimo Fanzago in the 1640s and since that time, the building has been called Villa Donn'Anna
Picture No
10554990
Media ID
45651874
Size
5598px x 3580px
(8.7MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Painting by C Mapuano, reproduced on a postcard
Date
circa 1909
