Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano

This guide to Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano in Naples traces the building from a Spanish merchant's 1630s mansion, stormed and burned in the revolt of 1647, through two centuries of changing owners including the Colonna princes of Stigliano, to 1898, when a bank bought the ground floor and tore the roof off the old courtyard to raise a soaring glass hall. You'll hear about the painters and gilders who finished the piano nobile ceiling and the walls around you in the new Liberty style. Look up at the grand staircase beside you, carved and gilded for clerks counting money under glass.