Charles III of Bourbon He had said in no uncertain terms: a Caserta He was to be built his "Versailles”. The royal palace the most beautiful of the whole kingdom of Naples. Stuff that rivals even the real France.
The Park as we admire us today is only part of what the architect Luigi Vanvitelli He had planned in the sixteenth century. The vicissitudes of real factory They are known to everyone and the same initial design underwent several times changes and downsizing. One of the most popular additions, even in the initial design by Vanvitelli, fu, for example, that desired by Queen of Naples, Maria Carolina, which, following the fashion in vogue, Caserta also built a splendid "english Garden”.
The beautiful fountains of the Palace
To be fascinated by the magic of lakes, beautiful sculptures and fountains just cross the entry threshold of the palace and take the main avenue to the fountain that leads into the park: it is from here that wind through the gardens of Eden dear to the King of Naples.
The Fontana Margherita It is inserted in a circular flowerbed, and closes, practically, the Italian garden opening the path that leads into the English with the first of three large tanks with longitudinal development:the Peschiera Grande, a almost half a kilometer long reservoir ending with a sculptural complex formed by three large dolphins (work of Gaetano Salomone) from whose mouths gushing acqua.Poco more about, separated by a large lawn, soar the sophisticated complex of Aeolus Fountain (performed by Solomon, Brunelli, Violani, Persico and Solari), with its semicircular porch,the Fontanadi Request (by Salamone) carved and holds in his hands the image of Trinacria. And the extraordinary Fountain of Venus and Adonis by Paolo Persico, Tommaso Solari and Angelo Brunelli.
The Fountain of Three dolphins (1776), travertine, It is among the most beautiful and spectacular achievements of Sculptor Gaetano Salomone: It represents three sea monsters, one of which is greatest at the center, with the head and the body of a dolphin from whose mouth pours water. The fountain was designed by Carlo Vanvitelli who reworks the now deceased father project.
But not only carved mythological figures: the fountains of the palace of Caserta is also inspired by gods of the past such as the Fountain of Aeolus (1775), realized by sculptors Angelo Brunelli, Gaetano Salomone, Andrea Violani, Paolo Persico and Pietro Solari. It represents the god who solicited by Juno arouses the fury of the winds (positioned in the cavities which open exedra) versus Enea Hey Trojans and it is one of the park's unfinished works.
The fountains come to life with enchanting sculptures capable of giving spectacular water features as those of the great waterfall that gives it form another evocative work, the Fountain of Diana and Actaeon (1773) sculpted by Paolo Persico, Pietro Solari and Angelo Brunelli: Diana from a side, goddess of the hunt, surrounded by nymphs, It is about to plunge into the waters, other Actaeon. The myth says that the hunter Actaeon, after seeing her naked plunge to the bathroom in the woods of Megara, It is transformed into a stag by the same deity that incites against a pack of dogs ready to tear him to pieces.
