The Zevallos palace is a monumental palace in Naples located along via Toledo. The building houses the museum gallery of the same name, part of the Italian galleries owned by the Intesa Sanpaolo Banck Group.
The palace was erected between 1637 and 1639 by Cosimo Fanzago on the initiative of Juan de Ceballos y Nicastro (1592-1656; also known in Italian as Giovanni Zevallos), who wanted a noble palace on via Toledo, failing to build one nearby how crowded Spanish Quarters.
Juan was an important Neapolitan merchant and banker of Cantabrian origins (his father was a native of Vejorís, a town located in today's municipality of Santiurde de Toranzo, but he had moved to Naples at a young age by marrying the Italian Angela Nicastro), later joined the administration of the Neapolitan viceroyalty by purchasing several profitable venal offices, also obtaining in 1639 the city of Ostuni with the ducal title.
The Zevallos palace - Galleries of Italy
Address: Via Toledo, 185, 80132
Phone: +39800454229
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