Royal Palace
The splendid construction had raised beginning from 1600 for one of the greatest and populous capital city of the Spanish empire. The building, inhabited first from the Spanish viceroys, from the Austrians, from the Borbones and finally from the Savoia, has been center and image of the power, as well as I untie some historical circumstances of Naples and the Midday for almost four centuries. The project was entrusted by the viceroy, Fernando Ruiz de Castro, to the architect Domenico Fontana, between the most famous architects of the time, draftsman of the Rome of Sisto V. L'originario square body had widened one century afterwards with the New " Arm " wanted by Charles of Borbone. In eight hundred, after a fire, Ferdinando II of Borbone commanded radicals jobs of setup of the Building. The restaurations, conducted by the architect Gaetano Genovese, they widened and you/they regularized, without twisting, the ancient factory, conferring her an unitary and coherent architectural imprint. It was born in that years the "Ala of the Parties" and a new façade toward the sea solemnized from a tall plinth of bugnato and from a quick tower-belvedere. It's entirely of the Fountain the long façade manierista. To end Eight hundred the external niches had occupied from gigantic statues of the Kings of Naples, the first of the respective dynasties (Roger the Normanno,Federico II of Svevia, Charles I of Angiò, Alfonso I in Aragon, Charles V of Asburgo, Charles III of Borbone, Gioacchino Murat, Vittorio Emanuele II of Savoia). To the center of the façade they jump the real and viceregal coats of arms; under the balcony of parade it is instead the coat of arms of the Savoia. Entered in the Building it is accessed the Courtyard of honor that preserves intact the imprint architectural fontaniana. Of front is a fountain ottocentesca with statue of Fortune. To the left it is gone toward the Gardens, to the right toward the Courtyard of the Carriages and the Courtyard of the Belvedere.