Immacolatella

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The Immacolatella is an edifice in Naples, Italy. It is the small, old red building at water's edge in the main port of Naples. It is the only such remnant of old Naples still standing at the port. It was, in fact, the old quarantine station and was finished in the 1740s. It was built to the plans of Domenico Antonio Vaccaro, the proment painter, scultpor, and architect whose works are scattered throughout Naples, and which include the majolica-tile courtyard of the Church of Santa Chiara. The Immacolatella is so-called from the sculpture of the Immaculate Virgin above the facade. The area around the building was filled in during the 1930s, thus losing the "mini-harbor" to the north, an inlet that provided access from the sea directly to the old church now located in the middle of a traffic island. That church is abandoned and closed, but once served the sailors of Naples and was called Santa Maria del Portosalvo (safe haven).

The famous Immacolatella fountain associated with the building has been relocated and now stands on the seaside road, via Nazario Sauro, near the Castel dell'Ovo.