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Royal Palace of Caserta

is a historic house belonged to the royal dynasty of the Bourbons of Naples declared World Heritage by truth.Located in the town of Caserta is surrounded by a vast park in which they identified two areas the Italian garden and the garden.The Royal Palace of Caserta was built by Charles III of Bourbon who struck by the beauty of the landscape Caserta and eager to give a worthy representative office in the government of the capital Naples and its realm, which would be built a palace that you can bear comparison with that of Versailles.It is assumed that initially gave would have been built in Naples, Charles of Bourbon, but, conscious of the considerable vulnerability to attacks in the capital (especially from the sea) decided to build inland in Caserta a safer place and But not too far from Naples.

Cathedral Casertavecchia

is a sacred building the old Cathedral of the period the Romanesque which is located in the town of Caserta.The church dedicated to St. Michael the Archangel is set in a medieval village of origin Lombard on top of a hill 401 meters on the slopes of the mountains Tifatini.The town is a hillside village located about 10 km from capoluogoè and is now called "Old Caserta" or Casertavecchia in the Middle Ages but simply "Caserta" (originally Hirta House) before the title passed to the plains in the center developed eighteenth century (first called Towers then new and then Caserta Caserta.Casertavecchia was an important fortified town the county seat of a Lombard, and Norman, and seat of the diocese after the destruction in the High Middle Ages the ancient episcopal see of Calatia (near the present Maddaloni ).

Museum of the Opera

Inside the Palace of valuable importance is also the Opera Museum which houses paintings, testimonies furnishings and all have involved the construction of a palace that has few equals in the world and is considered by many for grandeur and magnitude higher than that of Versailles.Museum Terrae Motus Still inside the royal apartments is the Museum Terrae Motus with a series of works of modern art including the famous Andy Warhol fifty one of the world's leading authorities in this area. It is located in Caserta.

The Muse Wax Museum

a modern wax museum was founded, becoming the third of Italy after the one in Rome and Milan.The museum is divided into three sections.The first, largest, is devoted to the Bourbon dynasty, by Charles Francis II, with their wives, not to mention the architect Luigi Vanvitelli and Minister Bernard Tanucci: this was appreciated adviser to King Charles and his son Ferdinand, while those was the architect of the "palace" Bourbon.The second recalls the myth and the ancient origins of our civilization, Sibilla Cumana by the eruption of Vesuvius.The third projecting the visitor in the modern age, presenting some of the creators and protagonists of the bell culture, from literature to art, to the show. We find, well, S. Di Giacomo, R. Viviani, E. De Filippo, Toto, V. De Sica, M. Troisi Of course the characters are presented in square spectacularly harmonized, especially in clothes made from the old tailor that specializes in period costumes and rich fabrics such as silks S. Leucio.

Michelangelo Museum

The Michelangelo of Caserta Museum was opened to the public in April 2004 on the occasion of the Sixth Week of Culture in collaboration between the Superintendence of Caserta and Benevento and Caserta and State Archives has recently received recognition for 'Museum of regional interest '. It is located within the State of the Institute of Higher Secondary Education "M. Buonarroti" Caserta (formerly Technical Institute for Surveyors 'Michelangelo'). The museum offers exhibits of the nineteenth and twentieth century surveying instruments, calculating machines, and educational and scientific models for topography, built between 1800 and mid-seventies of the twentieth century (there are tools of Joseph Spano and his son Gaetano, products in Naples in the second half of the nineteenth century). Complete the section of Topography section of the History of Surveying "De Arte Mensoria", with reproductions of the copy of the land measuring instruments from ancient Rome to the seventeenth century.

Court Theatre

Without doubt the most beautiful structure of the city remains the Court Theatre in the Royal Palace of Caserta a small gem from the late eighteenth century with a capacity of 450 seats.The Theatre a real Thumbnail of San Carlo in Naples, also used to host conferences and cultural events is used for a range of mainly classical music festivals such as Christmas concerts at the Royal Palace with the Maestro De Simone and the Society Chamber of Caserta and the Scarlatti of Naples.

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