On Sunday, September 29, on the occasion of the European Heritage Days – GEP 2024, the members of the PRIN PNRR 2022 Nea_Via project are organizing a walk through the Chiaia district in Naples to discover the 16th and 17th-century villas that have either disappeared or been so transformed that they are difficult to identify.
Starting from Palazzo Cellamare, the walk will continue to the residences of the d’Avalos del Vasto and the Carafa di Roccella families, and then to the villa of Alfonso d’Aragona. Along the Riviera di Chiaia, participants will identify traces of the properties of Diomede Carafa (now Palazzo Ruffo della Scaletta and Villa Pignatelli) and the Alarcon della Valle family (headquarters of Tirrenia until 2017). The walk will end between the Church of S. Maria in Portico and Palazzo Nobile, where the villas of the Orsini di Gravina and the Sanseverino di Bisignano once stood.
Meeting point: 11:00 AM at via S. Caterina 76, in front of the Church of S. Caterina a Chiaia.
More information: https://cultura.gov.it/evento/gep-2024-in-cammino-tra-le-ville-scomparse-di-chiaia
