Royal Palace of Caserta 3 ours
This palace belonged to the royal Bourbon dynasty in Naples, is declared by UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is also called the Italian Versailles.
The king specifically requested from Rome a talented architect, engineer Vanvitelli, who was busy with works for the Vatican. The construction and finishing work were carried out almost 100 years. The grand vestibule with a grand staircase of Honour is simply breathtaking, here Vanvitelli invented the first stereo music - a false ceiling where the musicians were located - the guests of the King did not understand where the music came from. The king wanted the chapel the same as in Versailles, but was too insipid and pompous by Vanvitelli's taste, he managed that the king approved his project, based on the classical style of Ancient Greece and Rome. Old (18 century) and new (19 century) apartments admire with their decoration - paintings and frescoes, marble, Baroque and Empire furniture, sofas and armchairs lined with silk of the royal factory of San Leucho, silk-covered walls, bronze chandeliers and Murano glass chandeliers. In addition, you will learn what a flying chair, a music cupboard and a strange object of unknown application in the form of a guitar.
Located in the city of Caserta, surrounded by a huge park, which is divided into two parts: a garden in Italian style , which has 7 fountains, and a garden in English style, romantic. Vanvitelli himself calls his project a great theater in nature, where at the beginning of the park are the spectators and look at the performences of nature and water. Water by its current symbolizes life, it gives movement to statues that can not move. The English garden is full of romantic corners, rivulets full of algae, waterfalls, hills, secret paths, intersecting roads adorned with majestic plane trees, cedars, pines, cypresses, magnolias, palms, herbs and flowers.
In beauty this palace is compared with the Palace of Versailles of France.