Museo Pignatelli
Neoclassical villa-turned-museum with gilded salons and a historic carriage collection.
This guide to Museo Pignatelli in Naples opens with a puzzle: of five Rothschild banking houses spanning Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna and Naples, only the Naples branch ever shut down for good, and you are standing in its former headquarters. It follows Carl Mayer von Rothschild, who arrived in 1821 and bought this neoclassical villa in 1841, filling it with a gilded ballroom to impress the kingdom's creditors, then turns to Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1860 march into Naples and the loyalty his successor showed the exiled Bourbon king. The villa later passed to Prince Diego Aragona Pignatelli Cortes, whose family filled these same rooms with their own porcelain and silver for decades.
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