Royal Palace, Caserta

The Royal Palace of Caserta. Two weeks before I visited Italy I discovered by chance a snippet of information about the Royal Palace of Caserta just outside Naples. I had never heard of this place before and got quite excited the more I read about it. It is said to be the Italy’s equivalent to The Palace of Versailles just outside Paris and it is in fact even bigger than Versailles. I hurriedly tried to find out as much information about it to see if it would be possible to make a visit to the palace and once I had discussed it with my friends we decided to make a visit to it.In my research ... more

I have always liked visiting large houses and castles, so when working in Italy recently, I managed to get an afternoon off, a friend of mine who is very knowledgeable on art, mentioned that Caserta is a fantastic place to visit. So that was it, I would go to Caserta *** What is it? *** Caserta was the Royal Palace built by the Bourbon King Charles (who went on to become Charles 3rd of Spain). He came to the Throne in 1734, and decided in 1750 to build a palace worthy of his reign. He commissioned the architect Luigi Vanvitelli. One of the objectives was to build a palace to be greater than ... more