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Villa Craven

  • Visit: about 50 min
Villa Craven
Photo: Baku · CC BY-SA 4.0 · resized

Grand 19th-century villa in Posillipo built from 1819 for the English noblewoman Elizabeth Craven.

In Posillipo, Villa Craven, later Traversi and today also known as Villa Maria or Villa Rae, is one of the great noble villas of the 19th century.It was built from 1819 for Elizabeth Craven, an English writer and noblewoman, widow of the Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, who had moved to Naples in 1806.

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