The remnants of the Carmine Castle in Naples.

The Carmine Castle is a castel in Naples, Italy. It was one of the fortifications built by the Spaniards under viceroy Pedro Alvarez de Toledo in the mid-1500s as part of the Spanish plans to surround the city with walls and forts. It stood at was then the south-east corner of the walled city, that wall then turning in to the north. The fortress had great strategic value in the military history of the city up to and including the defense of the Neapolitan Republic of 1799 against the returning royalist forces of king Ferdinand IV. In order to make room for a modern road along the sea and the port of Naples, the fortress/castle was demolished in 1900 as part of the great urban renewal of Naples of that period. Two towers and fragmentary ruins still stand as historic markers. Country Italy Region Campania Province Naples (NA) Mayor Rosa Russo Jervolino Elevation 17 m Area 117 km² Population  - Total (as of December 31, 2004) 1,000,470  - Density 8,457/km² Time zone CET, UTC+1 Coordinates Gentilic Napoletani Dialing code 081 Postal code 80100 Patron Saint Januarius  - Day September... Don Pedro Alvarez de Toledo, Marques de Villafranca, was appointed the Spanish viceroy of the Kingdom of Naples in 1532 and remained until 1553. ... The flag of the Parthenopaen Republic was the French tricolor, with the a yellow stripe in the place of the white one The Parthenopaean Republic (Italian: Repubblica Napolitana) formed a brief interlude in the history of the Kingdom of Naples, the result of activities of France in the aftermath of... King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (January 12, 1751 - January 4, 1825). ...