The Villa Comunale

The Villa Comunale (formerly Villa Reale) is one of monumental park in Naples. The large garden, planted with oaks, pines, palms, eucalyptus trees stretches over 1 km between Victoria Square and Rebubblic Square, flanked by the Riviera di Chiaia and street Caracciolo.

His first group dates back to 1697, when the Viceroy Duke of Medinacoeli planted a double row of trees decorated with 13 fountains along the Riviera. In 1778-80, the EEA was converted into a real garden, by the will of Ferdinand IV of Bourbon and the work of Carlo Vanvitelli, son of the famous Luigi.

In the Villa there are neo-classical sculptures, fountains and various buildings of different eras.
It houses:

1. The fountain called the Paparella, formed by a large cup of porphyry found at Paestum);
2. Fountains Tardocinquecento from the eighteenth century, such as that of Saint Lucia, post up to 1898 Via Saint Lucia, the work of the sculptors Michelangelo and Tommaso Naccherino Montani (1606);
3. Fountain of the Rape of Europe already in Via Angelo Viva Marinella (1798);
4. Fountain of the Rape of the Sabine;
5. The Casina Pompeiana;
6. The large box Harmonica Henry Alvino (1877) cast iron and glass;
7. The Zoological Station Anton Dohrn.
8. The Palace of the Press Club created by architects Luigi Cosenza and Marcello Canino in 1948. 

 In the Villa there are also busts of illustrious Neapolitan

 The Villa is situated between Caracciolo street (seafront) and Riviera di Chiaia