The Villa Floridiana is a monumental house located amid a large park in the Vomero quarter in Naples, southern Italy.
Between 1817 and 1819 the architect Antonio Niccolini reconstructed the building and the surrounding gardens, landscaping in a free, English-style.
The villa since 1931 has housed the National Museum of Ceramics, Naples, also called the Museo Duca di Martina.
[1] The Duke of Martina, second-born son of Riccardo and Maria Argentina Caracciolo, born in Naples in 1929, but moving to Paris where he began collecting decorative arts.
Since at least 1953 the gardens have been home to a colony of predominantly black stray cats, which are cared for by volunteers.