The most beautiful gardens in Italy: the Royal Palace of Caserta stands out

The Royal Palace of Caserta

His splendid palace, it is in style Baroque architectural and has a garden that has the characteristic of relaxing the mind and appeasing the soul of those who visit it for how beautiful it is.

Called the Palace of Versailles ed, to be honest, he has nothing to envy them.

The garden of the Royal Palace of Caserta

One of the most beautiful parks in Italy is the Giardino della Reggia di Caserta. A historical park that sooner or later everyone in life visits and remains more than enchanted.

Visiting the park means, that besides admiring the views, and “feel” even the very rare scents that can be perceived in the park.

The park is divided into two green areas: the Italian garden and the English garden
(made later).

What to see in the Garden of the Royal Palace of Caserta

The park covers an area of ​​approximately 120 ha: three km of breathtaking beauty.

Already at the entrance, the park offers caves, woods, statues and fountains that make the landscape simply beautiful.

The Garden can be visited from the entrance of the Royal Palace but if you wish, you can do it from a secondary entrance in Via Giannone. It is the central avenue that opens the passage with vegetation that then leads to another avenue then to another avenue that runs alongside tree-lined paths.

A 200 meters, the avenue leads to an area where previously there was a grove but instead, today, is located there Torre Pernesta (known as Castelluccia), which opens onto a moat and a drawbridge.

Gives Torre Pernesta you get to Old fish market, that Ferdinand IV, used to do fake naval battles. From the climb, you can admire the wonderful fountains whose sculptures describe mythological scenes.

The fountains all have a name:

• The fountain “Peschiera” ends with three dolphins from which water flows;
• The fountain of “Eolo” it is dedicated to the god of winds;
• The fountain of “Diana and Actaeon” who sees Actaeon torn to pieces by his dogs. Above this tank is the “Great Cascat” from which water flows which goes to fill the tank itself.

In the left area there is a refreshment point while on the right you continue to the English garden…and here a real world opens up! Avenues decorated with cypresses, pines, magnolie, fat plants, platani, palms and cedars of Lebanon: very large greenhouses have also been built recently in which exotic plants are grown and new crop techniques are studied.