This palazzo is permanently closed. The artwork, including Caravaggio’s last work The Martrydom of Saint Ursula , has been moved 300 meters up the street to the Gallerie d”Italia in the Banco di Napoli.

My wife and I had been meticulously planning a trip to Naples, Southern Italy, and Rome for a couple of years, but each trip was delayed due to Covid-19 restrictions. We were finally able to go to Italy this year and planned on seeing every single Caravaggio in Naples and Rome. Although we’d enjoyed Naples three times before, we’d never been to the Gallerie di Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano. Aside from Caravaggio’s Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, we’d read that the Gallerie had many other pieces of great art, so we were really looking forward to going there. We planned on going directly to Gallerie di Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano as the very first thing on our itinerary after checking in to our hotel in Naples. We did that, but the Gallerie was nowhere to be found, and we ended up walking in circles trying to find it at the address on the website. We didn’t see any signs about the Gallerie, and no one in the area could tell us anything about it. We went back the next day and looked again; still no luck. It wasn’t until we got home a few weeks later that we discovered on the Gallerie’s website it was remodeling and was moving a short distance away. It was scheduled to reopen almost exactly one month after we were there! If there had been a notice on the Gallerie’s website before our trip about its closure for remodeling, we missed it. We understand and appreciate that the Gallerie took advantage of the absence of tourists due to Covid-19 to move and remodel. Good for it. From the pictures of the new location on the website, it certainly looks like the remodeling may have been an improvement, but after planning our trip for a couple of years, that just doesn’t lessen our disappointment. The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula is the only Caravaggio we didn’t see in Naples and Rome. SIGH.