Church of the Nunziatella, Baroque church in Naples, Italy

The Church of the Nunziatella is a baroque building in Naples featuring detailed marble altars, painted ceilings, and decorative elements from the 18th century. The interior displays a carefully designed spatial arrangement with several chapels and ornamental surfaces created for religious use.

The church was built in 1588 for Anna Mendoza, Marchesa della Valle, who later gave it to the Jesuits. Ferdinando Sanfelice rebuilt it entirely in 1736, erasing the 16th-century structure. After the Jesuits were expelled in 1773, the Somaschi fathers took over the complex and set up a college for sons of the Knights of Malta; the following year the king opened the Real Collegio Militare there, and the church became the chapel of the Nunziatella military school.

The name "Nunziatella" is a popular diminutive of Annunziata, used to distinguish the church from the larger Basilica della Santissima Annunziata Maggiore; the name later passed to the adjacent military school. Since 1774 the church has served as the chapel of the Nunziatella Military Institute, and in November 1801 a funeral mass was held here for Maria Clementina of Habsburg-Lorraine, with an oration by the academy's commander Giuseppe Saverio Poli.

The church stands within the grounds of the Nunziatella Military School in the San Ferdinando district, near the Riviera di Chiaia, so access depends on the institute rather than on normal parish hours. Visitors should ask the school about entry to the chapel and its artworks, since the building is not freely open like a city church.

The facade omits the usual statues and ornaments entirely; the central block projects strongly from the side bays, and the play of light and shadow comes from the mouldings of the orders alone. Inside, the apse holds two 1734 funeral monuments to the brothers Michele and Andrea Giovene by Francesco Pagano.