Palazzo Donn'Anna

This guide to Palazzo Donn'Anna in Naples explains why the honey-colored walls look weathered rather than grand: construction stopped abruptly around 1644 and was never resumed. You'll hear how Duchess Anna Carafa hired architect Cosimo Fanzago to carve a three-story palace into this tufa cliff to announce her family's rise, and how her husband's sudden recall to Spain as viceroy halted the work. It follows the legend Neapolitans invented to fill the silence, of a medieval queen said to have lured fishermen here and dropped their bodies into the sea below.