The splendid holdings on the hill of Vomero were acquired by Ferdinand I of Bourbon as a summer residence for the Duchess of Floridia, Lucia Migliaccio. Thus was born the exquisitely refined neoclassical villa, designed by the Tuscan architect Antonio Piccolini. The villa and the surrounding parks were acquired by the state in 1919 and since 1927 the Ceramics Museum of the Duke of Martina has been housed here. This museum contains one of the most prestigious collections of Oriental and European decorative art and includes over six thousand objects made of various decorative materials, from glass to amber, coral to enamel, but mostly porcelain and majolica.