On the Fort of Granatello, to keep its memory alive

The Fort of Granatello in Portici was built on an ancient coastal watchtower between 1703 and 1706, at the behest of the last Viceroy of Naples Juan Manuel Fernández Pacheco, Duke of Escalona and Marquess of Villena. The following paper is aimed to retrace its history based on the collected archival-bibliographic and iconographic documentation, in the framework of the wider context of coastal defensive buildings and of the story of the construction of the Royal Site of Portici and the Granatello harbor, highlighting their connections and historical ties. This is aimed to preserve its memory, as the Fort was destroyed by cannon fire by the Military Navy of the newborn Kingdom of Italy in 1873.