Caserta Travel Guide

 stephenshephard Says:  The Caserta Palace garden is now a park. Its main feature is an enormous series of fountains leading to an 82 metre high waterfall fed by a specially built aqueduct. It is a very long walk from the palace to the waterfall, so you might want to take the bus back that goes up... 

 unravelau Says:  From the palace to the last fountain the roadway is straight . Fountains, pools, statues and various other sculptures around little stairways lead you up to the next level. When you reach the end of these, the roadway broadens and forms a semi-circular avenue marked by a... 

 filip007 Says:  Luigi Vanvitelli (and his son who continued the work afterwards) is also responsible for the gardens, who climb up the hill for up to 3km. Fountains, ponds and statues decorate the park and the walk, with the artificial river running in the middle and descending in cascades... 

 filip007 Says:  The palace itself was built by Luigi Vanvitelli, an architect from Naples and is really impressive, with its 1200 rooms and 1790 windows. Inside, the sheer height of the ceiling in royal rooms and the decorations that stay on the "light" side (classicism reigned at the time)... 

 suhadis Says:  Warning: this 'extra' part of the Garden's walk is not recommended is you are not able bodied, or in a large family group with kids! There are risks involved in the part of the climb.Apparently there is a path leading right up to the top of the waterfall at the end. It has... 

 suhadis Says:  At the end of this walk, you will come to a spectacular fountain with sculpture works by Paolo Persico, Angelo Brunelli and Pietro Solari, depicting the mythilogical episode of Diana and Actaeon, with the spectacular man made water fountain as the backdrop. 

 suhadis Says:  In this stage, you can see cascading pools of water from nearly the back of the gardens. Each pool there are large carp-like fishes. It's refreshing to hear the water gushing from one pool to the next. The gradient of the land starts to slope up. 

 Cristian_Uluru Says:  Grand Hotel Vanvitelli has got 4 restaurants. The Ristorante Roof Garden is located on the fourth floor and there you can see views of Caserta. The environment is very elegant but the waiters are very friendly. Here you can taste a good choice of Campanian and Italian... 

 stephenshephard Says:  The nearest city to Caserta is Naples. There are frequent trains from Naples Central station to Caserta taking about 35 minutes. See the online Trenitalia timetable for more details (search for trains from Napoli to Caserta and back). 

 unravelau Says:  but scarcely thought to look at it as other than the access to: - the garden, the waterfalls, the statues or indeed the staircase into the palace itself. The end view was pretty enticing really. 

 unravelau Says:  Now I forget, myself whether this was on the right or the left hand side of the grand hallway but it is there somewhere. 

 filip007 Says:  Slightly of the main walk - on the right when descending, you will find a rather huge pond with an island in the middle. It was built to provide military education, housing mock sea battles and entertainment - parties were thrown on the island. 

 unravelau Says:  I just loved all of the decorations, statues, vases, clocks, paintings and everything inside really. That everything that is to be seen here, i.e. the gardens, the statues, the palace, the medieval area, the fountains etc., are just so beautiful and all at the one spot for...