Access
Access to the Villa Campolieto is allowed only from 10 to 13 every day of the week including Saturday and Sunday, except Monday.
Please do not log this cache as found if you are out if such scheduling, and the gate is closed.
Access to the villa is 5 euros; visit the rooms, the stairs, the large elliptical colonnade with round arches of Vanvitelli, and the gardens.
Instead you pay a ticket for 3 euro to visit the interior decoration of the first floor, which include works by Jacopo Cestaro, Fedele Fischetti, Gaetano Magrì.
Bring your own pencil!
History
The construction of the villa Campolieto began in 1755, when the Duke of Casacalenda, Lucio di Sangro, commissioned the project to Mario Gioffredo.
Then the construction was given to the architect Michelangelo Giustiniani, and finally to Luigi Vanvitelli who directed the work from 1763 to 1773, and after his death, to his son Carlo, who completed the work in 1775.
After the death of the Duke of Casacalenda, the villa was inherited by his son Scipio, who died in 1805 without heirs.
The ownership of the villa was divided between several nieces and it began a slow decline, culminating in the Second World War with military occupation. After the war the house was entrusted to Ente Vesuvian Villas, was restored by architect Paolo Romanello and placed under protection by Italian law as a cultural asset of particular interest.
Two films have shot scenes in the villa: The "Operation San Gennaro" Risi (1966), and The priest's hat (1970).
It now houses the Stoa - Institute for the Study of the Management and Business Management, and is the scene of cultural and social events.
