Enrico Alvino

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Enrico Alvino (Milan, 1809 - Rome, 1872), Italian architect and urban designer, particularly active in Naples in the mid-19th century.

Among his important works in Naples are:

• façade of the church of Santa Maria di Piedigrotta (1853);
• laid out (with others) the street, Corso Maria Teresa, today named Corso Vittorio Emanuele (between1852 and 1860), finished in 1870;
• planned the restoration of the façade of the Cathedral of Naples, completed in 1870;
• redesigned the Santa Lucia quarter in 1862;
• redesigned (with others) the Villa Comunale;
• converted the ancient convent of San Giovanni a Costantinopoli into the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.