Located on the first floor of a prestigious noble palace, this elegant and bright apartment is situated in a historic building in the area of Naples once known as Limpiano or Imbrecciata, now Salita Pontecorvo. With a living area of about 327 square meters, the property was acquired by the current owner in the early 1900s to be used as a family residence.
The entrance to the apartment is through a wide communal staircase made of piperno stone and handcrafted tiles, leading to the first floor, where the main area of about 264 square meters unfolds. A second level, about 63 square meters, houses two bedrooms, a storage room, and a bathroom.
The first floor represents the heart of the residence, an authentic reception area that combines elegance and brightness. The entrance opens onto a large living room furnished with period furniture and overlooking the garden of the inner courtyard. Next to it, a refined study with a large library and a significant antique wooden desk. A private inner corridor leads to the sleeping area, consisting of two bedrooms: one with a mezzanine and the other, particularly bright, with a small balcony and a comfortable walk-in closet. The property also includes a well-organized service area, with a large laundry room and two bathrooms with fine finishes.
A marble staircase leads to the second level, where there is a third bedroom, a bathroom, and a small storage room. On the south side of the apartment, in continuity with the main living room, access is provided to the dining room and the adjacent kitchen, both overlooking a charming terrace of about 35 square meters with a view of the garden of the communal courtyard.
This splendid apartment is enhanced by treated terracotta floors, original interior doors with refined decorations and wooden pilasters, high ceilings with light paintings, solid wood frames restored in every room, and period furnishings of great value.
It is located at the center of the ascent named after a family of Lazio origins, the Pontecorvos, who arrived in the Neapolitan city during the viceroyal era and began constructing sumptuous Baroque palaces that were, and still are, the pride of our architecture. The family was literally wiped out by the plague of 1656.
Subsequently, in the second half of the 1600s, the area underwent a transformation and was acquired by a series of monasteries, which, due to the strict regulations of the Counter-Reformation that mandated silence and discretion, settled in Salita Pontecorvo precisely for its particular tranquility, dismantling several noble palaces and adapting them into convents and places of meditation.