Villa Floridiana
Neoclassical hilltop villa and romantic English garden housing a six-thousand-piece decorative arts museum.
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This guide to Villa Floridiana in Naples traces two people who never really enjoyed it. Lucia Migliaccio, duchess of Floridia, was given this Vomero hilltop by King Ferdinand the First after a marriage too unequal to make her queen, and the architect Antonio Niccolini rebuilt it into a neoclassical retreat with English-style paths and rare trees. Decades later, Placido de Sangro, duke of Martina, spent a lifetime collecting Meissen and Capodimonte porcelain, Ming ceramics, ivory and jade that would eventually fill these rooms. Listen for how their two stories, a garden and a collection, ended up under one roof.
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