Fountain of Monteoliveto, Naples

The Fountain of Monteoliveto is a late-Baroque monumental fountain in central Naples, Italy. It is also called the Fountain of Charles II or of the Small King.

History

Many architects and stonemasons had worked on the initial waterworks, which was flowing by the 1660s. The central statuary complex was commissioned by the viceroy Pedro Antonio de Aragón and completed in 1699 based on designs by the architect Cosimo Fanzago. Atop stands a bronze statue of Charles II of Spain. The fountain is located in Piazza Monteoliveto, also called piazzetta Trinità Maggiore, unto which faces the church of Sant'Anna dei Lombardi in the Piazza of the Gesù Nuovo and the Convent of Santa Chiara. Another contemporary fountain in Naples would the Fountain of Neptune presently located a few blocks south in Via Medina, in Naples, Italy.