Palazzo Albertini di Cimitile, 18th century palace in Santa Teresa degli Scalzi, Naples, Italy.
Palazzo Albertini di Cimitile is an 18th-century palace in Santa Teresa degli Scalzi featuring a grand staircase set within a square frame supported by pillars. The staircase displays ornate cross vaulting reinforced by decorative stone bands.
Giovanni Battista Albertini, Prince of Cimitile, commissioned the building in 1774 after acquiring the land from Carlo Acquaviva d'Aragona. This construction reflected the growth of Naples' northern quarter during the late 18th century.
Locals call it Palazzo Calabria after Giacomo Calabria, a former Prosecutor General of the Naples tribunal in the Cuocolo case and later first President of the Court of Cassation and senator. The portal above street level still carries the Calabria family's noble emblem. Since 2023 the piano nobile has housed Naples' first Soka Gakkai Buddhist cultural centre.
The address is Via Santa Teresa degli Scalzi 76 in northern Naples. The palace sits in a residential neighborhood and is accessible by public transportation routes serving the Santa Teresa Scalzi area.
When work paused, Augustinian monks took piperno blocks left on the square in front of the palace and kept them in their garden. The theft was reported, but the inquiry went nowhere because the monks bribed those in charge of the investigation.
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