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Villa Riario Sforza

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

Posillipo villa born as an annexe of Villa Rocca Matilde, on the large estate of Georg Rendel.

In Posillipo, Villa Riario Sforza began as an annexe of Villa Rocca Matilde. In 1891 the English engineer Georg Rendel bought the large estate and embellished its buildings and park.After his death the property was divided and the villa passed to the Riario Sforza family. A piece of cosmopolitan late 19th-century Posillipo.

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