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CASERTA EXCURSION
Town of the region Campania, near the
river Volturno, at the foot of the Mount Tifata. It developed around
the Royal Palace built from 1752 by the architect Luigi
Vanvitelli entrusted by the Bourbons of Naples. The city
was called New Caserta while the Old Caserta (Casa
Hirta), founded by Longobards in the VIII century, was located on
the Mount Virgo.
Nowadays Caserta is very famous for
the Royal Palace, inspired from the Royal Palace of Versailles,
with a monumental white marble staircase and an enchanting and vast
Park where its possible admire waterfalls, fountains like the
Fountain of Diana and Atteone, the Fountain of Venere, the
Fountain of the Dolphins, and the English Garden, the ideal place
for a romantic walk.
The most important monuments in Old
Caserta, a characteristic medieval village, are, on the contrary,
the Cathedral, consecrated in the 1153, the rests of a castle
of the IX century and the gothic Church of the Annunziata (XIV
century).
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