This palazzo was built in the period of the viceroy Conte di Lemos. The palazzo has been home to La Reale Stamperia, la Reale Arazzeria, the 17th-century Palatine Academy, the King's Gabinetto Fisico, the Palatine Library, The Bourbon Archive and the musical archives of the Royal chapel; it has also been the seat of power of the Neapolitan monarchy and that of South Italy. If you pass through the Cortile d'Onore you will reach the museum of the Palazzo Reale, which contains the furnishings and decorations of the noble apartment - thirty rooms where state functions and gatherings would take place, an 18th-century theatre and a chapel dedicated to the Assunta.