Caserta
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The history of Caserta is closely connected with the dynasty of the Bourbons. In 1744 Charles of Bourbon, King of Naples, decided to build a new royal palace which should have been not the inferior to the palace of Versailles. For his plan he chose this place in the plain of Campania and engaged for the project the architect Luigi Vanvitelli. Construction began in 1752 and gave rise to a monumental palace of great harmony and perfection - the Reggia di Caserta. The palace has 1,200 rooms, 1,970 windows and 34 staircases; in twenty years of work was built on an area of 45,000 sqm. The architect did a channel for the waters of Taburno from its source for about 40 km to the royal park that is full of fountains, artificial ponds and waterfalls. The works in the palace were completed only in 1845.
About 10 km northeast of Caserta there is the romantic medieval village of Caserta Vecchia (Old Caserta), which you should definitely pay a visit. Probably founded in the eighth century AD by the Lombards, Caserta Vecchia belonged to the principality of Capua and was an Episcopate already in the 9th Century. In 1153 the cathedral was completed, this magnificent structure in siculo-Arab style with influences of Romanesque architecture is the center of town. On the eastern outskirts of Caserta Vecchia, you meet the remains of the Castello, a fortress probably built in the 9th Century, of which only the 30-m-high main tower has been preserved.
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