Villa Leonetti, Historic villa in Vomero district, Naples, Italy

Villa Leonetti sits on Via Aniello Falcone in an elevated location and features a sculpted gray piperno portal beside a yellow tuff wall. Terraced gardens surround the structure and connect the complex to the neighborhoods below.

Villa Leonetti began as a dependency of Villa Salve. After Antonio Winspeare married Emma Gallone, Duchess of Salve, it passed to him; childless, the couple left it in 1918 to Edoardo Winspeare, son of his cousin. Between 1928 and 1931 it was sold to Michele Platania, then to Carlo d'Errico, and finally to the Leonetti counts, who restored it.

The gray piperno portal came from Palazzo Sirignano, demolished in the late 1930s; it had belonged to Laura Caravita di Sirignano, wife of Count Tommaso Leonetti. The villa's name changed with its owners: it was formerly called Poggio Fiorito. The Leonetti counts gave the building its present name and carried out its renovation.

Villa Leonetti stands on Via Aniello Falcone in the Vomero district, set above street level and reached on foot via steps or a climb. The terraced park laid out by Pietro Porcinai surrounds the building, so the grounds are best seen by walking the different levels rather than from a single viewpoint.

Inside the grounds stands a 17th-century watchtower, compared in the sources to the Torre Ranieri on Via Manzoni. It is a separate structure from the villa itself, which began as a dependency of Villa Salve.