This itinerary includes a visit to one of the most beautiful monuments in Campania: the Reggia di Caserta.
Built by King Charles of Bourbon and designed by the noted architect Luigi Vanvitelli commencing from 1752, the "Reggia di Caserta" is one of the grandest royal buildings of Campania. It recalls, through its architecture, the French Versailles. The complex, in addition to the palace is composed also of an enormous park of a length of approximately 3 km, adorned, in larger part, by beautiful fountains.
The immense residence is composed of 1200 rooms, 34 staircases, 1742 windows, more than 4 courtyards, chapels and theatres.
A visit to Caserta can not exclude a round of the old city that holds within its village a beautiful Muslim-Siculo style cathedral with a bell-tower clearly of gothic influence. After a rest in one of the typical restaurants of the area, we will direct you to Borgo di San Leucio, not very far from Caserta. "Ferdinandopoli" - this was the name that Ferdinand IV of Bourbon gave to San Leucio, in anticipation of his utopian dream to create a town here for the creation of silk.
The king had imagined this city as one governed by a regulatory system, in which there was equality among the people, education and social security for everyone. With the invention of steam engines, this utopia did not materialize and the king’s dream vanished, leaving us today with a lovely village, still famous for its manufacture of silk.
Still today, the silk of San Leucio is found in the Vatican, the Quirinal Palace, the Oval Room of the White House; the flags of the later and that of Buckingham Palace are made with this material.
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