Amazing Royal Park in Caserta

this Italian masterpiece combines manicured gardens and natural woodland, with hunting lodges and a silk factory. For instance, the English Garden, set within the complex, is one of the greatest, oldest, and most important picturesque spaces created in Europe. Combining the influences of Versailles, Rome, and Tuscany, the Caserta Royal Palace and Park, north of Naples, Caserta Royal Park was designed according to the wishes of Charles of Bourbon III by Luigi Vanvitelli, one of the greatest Italian architects of the 18th century. Caserta is considered a triumph of Italian Baroque, and ahead of its time and the Royal Park is also the first Italian landscape garden. Hundreds of rare and precious plants from around the world were brought to Caserta, and still grow there today. King Charles of Bourbon commissioned the building of Caserta’s Royal Palace in 1752 to his architect Luigi Vanvitelli. The palace has five floors and 1,200 rooms including the Court Chapel, the Palatine Library, and a theatre modelled after the Teatro San Carlo of Naples. The royal rooms are dated from the end of the 18th century, and the “new apartment” from the beginning of the 19th century. Inside, the vaulted arcade connects three octagonal vestibules leading to the four courtyards, characterised by niches and wide corner apses.