Villa Gallo, Residential villa in Naples, Italy

Villa Gallo stands on the Colli Aminei hill in Naples, reached from viale dei Pini by a small lane opening onto a tree-lined square, the last remnant of its old park. The main building, now home to the Rogationist Fathers, is a closed-courtyard farm complex: Antonio Niccolini added a fourth wing to the courtyard, a south-east turret with Gothic-arched loggias, and a north front with a six-column Doric portico topped by a terrace and pediment. A tufa retaining wall still braces the slope above the Sanità valley.

Antonio Niccolini, an architect who lived from 1772 to 1850, designed this villa as part of his extensive work in Naples. His designs helped shape the city's appearance during the 1800s.

The villa is also called Villa della Regina Isabella, after Isabella of Bourbon, widow of Francis I, who later owned it. Its name Gallo comes from Marzio Mastrilli, duke of Gallo, minister under Joseph Napoleon. The Rogationist Fathers now live in the building, and the tree-lined widening on viale dei Pini is the last remnant of the old park.

Villa Gallo stands on the Colli Aminei hill, reached from viale dei Pini by a short lane opening onto a tree-lined square, the last remnant of the old park. The building is a religious house of the Rogationist Fathers and is not open to visitors; the exterior and the square can be seen from the public street.

The villa's name comes from Marzio Mastrilli, duke of Gallo, who bought the estate in 1806 after the Dominican convent of Santa Caterina a Formiello was suppressed; it is also called villa della Regina Isabella after Queen Mother Isabella of Bourbon, widow of Francis I, later owned it.