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Palazzo Sessa

  • Visit: about 50 min
Pictured: Napoli · Wolfgang Moroder · CC BY-SA 3.0 · resized and cropped

Palazzo founded in 1506 and enlarged in 1746, home of the British ambassador William Hamilton and Emma.

On via Santa Maria a Cappella Vecchia, near piazza dei Martiri, Palazzo Sessa was founded in 1506 and enlarged in 1746 by Giuseppe Genoino and Andrea Vaccaro.In the Bourbon era it was the residence of the British ambassador William Hamilton, a collector and scholar of volcanoes, and his wife Emma, famous for her love affair with Admiral Nelson. Goethe was a visitor to their salon.

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