Royal Palace of Caserta

The Royal Palace of Caserta is a royal palace, with an adjoining park, located in Caserta. It is the largest royal residence in the world and the historical owners were the Bourbons of Naples, as well as a short period in which it was inhabited by the Murat.

In 1997 it was declared a world heritage site by UNESCO, together with the Vanvitelli aqueduct and the San Leucio complex. In 2015, with a total of 497,158 visitors, it was the fourteenth most visited Italian state museum site, for a gross income of 2,739,600.67 euro.

The palace, defined as the last great creation of Italian Baroque, was finished in 1845 (although it was already inhabited in 1780), resulting in a grandiose complex of 1,200 rooms and 1,742 windows, for a total cost of 8,711,000 ducats. On the southern side, the palace is 249 meters long, 37.83 meters high, decorated with twelve columns. The main facade has a central forepart surmounted by a pediment; on the sides of the façade, where the longitudinal building intersects with the transversal one, two more foreparts are inserted. The façade overlooking the garden is the same as the previous one, but has windows framed by fluted pilasters.

The building covers an area of ​​approximately 47,000 m²; it has 1,026 fumaroles and 34 ladders. In addition to the rectangular perimeter construction, the building has, inside the rectangle, two buildings that intersect in a cross and form four vast internal courtyards of over 3,800 m²

Entrance fee to the site not included in the cost of the guide service.

Possibility to organize a private appointment for big or small igroups