Palazzo Cellamare

The Palazzo Cellamare or Cellammare is a monumental palace located in Quartiere San Ferdinando of Naples, Italy.

The palace was erected in the 16th century by Giovanni Francesco Carafa, Prince of Stigliano, member of the House of Carafa. Giovanni Francesco's son Per Luigi Carafa commissioned from Ferdinando Manlio further reconstructions. During the Masaniello revolt in 1647, the palace was sacked by mobs. After 1689 the palace was acquired by the state. In the 18th century, among the owners were the Prince of Cellamarre Antonio del Giudice (who hired Ferdinando Fuga to design the chapel in 1726-1727), and later Spanish sculpture collector Michele Imperiali Simeana, Prince of Montena and Francavilla (d. 1782), a friend of Casanova. Further reconstructions were entrusted to the architect Francesco Antonio Picchiatti. The palazzo contains frescoes by Giacomo del Po, Pietro Bardellino, Giacinto Diano, and Fedele Fischetti. Little remains of the once sprawling gardens.