The National Museum of Capodimonte is located in Via Miano 1 in Naples in a park in the Reggia di Capodimonte, building designed by the Roman architect Antonio Canevari for Charles of Bourbon, King of Naples.
Ones of the most important art galleries of Italy are housed inside the National Galleries of Capodimonte.
The core of the museum is the Farnese Collection, the legacy of Elizabeth Farnese, donated to his son Charles III of Bourbon, the Borgia Collection and then the top floors of the gallery are the history of the Neapolitan school, from the Middle Ages to the present, with important works by Simone Martini, Colantonio, Caravaggio, Salvator Rosa, Luca Giordano, Massimo Stanzione, Battistello Caracciolo, the Spaniard, by Bernardo Cavallino, Niccolò de Simone, Giacinto Gigante and moan, as well as the famous painting by Andy Warhol 'Vesuvius ".
Among the gold stands out of the bag Farnese Manno Bars (1561).
The Palace is surrounded by manicured gardens and rich in plants. The museum complex is also a hunting lodge and a museum of ceramics.
Just in the palace of Capodimonte was baked in 1889 the first "modern pizza: Pizza Margherita, a variety of pizza spread throughout the world. The pizza Margherita is named after the first Queen of Italy, Queen Margherita di Savoia
