VIA TOLEDO, Palazzo Zevallos

You've almost reached the "Spanish Quarter", which is to the left of Via Toledo along the slopes of the hill of the San Martino monastery. This narrow, regular grid of overcrowded roads also known as "Montecalvario" was created in the mid-1500s as a low-cost housing settlement to accommodate Spanish garrison soldiers. This area is the most picturesque Naples, with clothes hanging out to dry, impossible traffic, rigorous dialect, and warm humanity.

The vivid seventeenth-century portal of Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano was designed by Cosimo Fanzago and faces Via Toledo; it was restructured at the beginning of the 20th century and turned into a bank, and is now a museum.

Going inside to visit the beautiful collections, you'll find that the large ground floor hall with its bank counters has been rightly maintained with its tasteful Liberty style, which was originally made by covering the courtyard with glass....