The Liberated Spaces in Naples are not housed in neutral buildings. Rather, they are embedded in architectures saturated with social memory—sites that once served as institutions of confinement and control, such as former prisons and religious retreats for women. Long before becoming today’s Liberated Spaces, some of these places had already been reappropriated as spaces of rebellion and care. This chapter explores the layered histories of these buildings, examining how their pasts continue to inform the practices and imaginaries of commoning today. Subsequently, focusing on the wave of occupations that took place between 2012 and 2015, the chapter situates these acts of spatial reappropriation within a broader urban context marked by attempts to redevelop these buildings through public-private partnerships and cultural regeneration projects. While the tourist city had not yet fully emerged during those years, the framework of the “cultural city” was already at play—positioning culture as a driver of economic growth and urban revitalisation. These Commons, however, interrupted that trajectory, revealing the ongoing tension between enclosure and liberation that runs through the histories of Naples.