{"id":6088,"date":"2025-03-18T10:16:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T10:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/palazzorealedinapoli.org\/sedi\/palazzo-reale\/gardens-and-courtyards\/cortile-del-belvedere\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T14:28:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T14:28:03","slug":"belvedere-courtyard","status":"publish","type":"sedi","link":"https:\/\/palazzorealedinapoli.org\/en\/sedi\/palazzo-reale\/gardens-and-courtyards\/belvedere-courtyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Belvedere Courtyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This courtyard \u2013 created in the seventeenth century to offer a view of the sea from the Viceroyal palace \u2013 was never completed as can be seen from the architectural structures in volcanic tuff, limited to the oldest portion towards the Courtyard of Honour. The large square overlooking the sea was connected to the military arsenal below by the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rampa del Gigante<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, named after the colossal statue placed at the corner of Largo di Palazzo, the current Piazza del Plebiscito. This ancient sculpture was excavated in Cuma and transported here in the seventeenth century but was removed at the beginning of the nineteenth century and is now on display at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. The <\/span><b>Hanging Garden<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which closes off the courtyard towards the sea, already existed the eighteenth century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Around the mid-nineteenth century during the general renovation of the entire complex directed by architect Gaetano Genovese, the buildings adjoining the courtyard which had grown haphazardly over the previous two centuries,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">were redefined according to a single and perfectly symmetrical design. A cast iron bridge was constructed at the centre to connect the Hanging Garden to the vestibule of the State Apartments. Destroyed by bombings in 1943, the bridge was faithfully rebuilt in 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The access halls to the Belvedere Courtyard offer telescopic views of the other courtyards and the sea. The East entrance hall at the end gives on to the so-called <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spianata<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a large terraced area offering a magnificent view of the port and the Gulf of Naples, with the Castel Nuovo and the Vesuvius in the background.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Created in the 17th century as a seafront extension of the viceregal palace, the courtyard was renovated in the 19th century and connected to the Hanging Garden by a cast iron bridge, now reconstructed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6086,"parent":5892,"menu_order":3,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6088","sedi","type-sedi","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/palazzorealedinapoli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sedi\/6088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/palazzorealedinapoli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sedi"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/palazzorealedinapoli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/sedi"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/palazzorealedinapoli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sedi\/6088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6089,"href":"https:\/\/palazzorealedinapoli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sedi\/6088\/revisions\/6089"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palazzorealedinapoli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sedi\/5892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palazzorealedinapoli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/palazzorealedinapoli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}