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Villa Majo

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

Neoclassical Vomero villa by Antonio Niccolini for the Marquis of Genzano, whose son was executed in 1799.

In the Vomero, Villa Majo, or Genzano-Majo, was commissioned by the Marquis of Genzano, Giovanni Andrea de Marinis, who entrusted its construction to Antonio Niccolini.The marquis lost his son, executed after the 1799 revolution; the villa passed to his daughter, married to a Majo. It was also known as Villa Majo all'Infrascata.

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