Italia Reggia di Caserta 1 The garden

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REGGIA DI CASERTA
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The garden
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The Royal Palace of Caserta (Reggia di Caserta)
is a former royal residence constructed for the
Bourbon kings of Naples
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Imagined by Luigi Vanvitelli as a spectacular
completion of the Palace, it extends over 120
hectares of gently sloping land towards the
Briano hill. Although the design was resized, it
remains an extraordinary example of landscape
design, enriched by pleasant places, fake ruins,
fountains and water games
The palace was listed as a world heritage site in
1997. According to the rationale, the palace,
"whilst cast in the same mould as other 18th
century royal establishments, is exceptional for
the broad sweep of its design, incorporating not
only an imposing palace and park, but also much
of the
surrounding natural landscape and an ambitious
new town laid out according to the urban planning
precepts of its time."
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The Royal Palace of Caserta (Reggia di Caserta)
is one of the largest palaces erected in Europe
during the 18th century. The construction of the
palace was begun in 1752 for Charles VII of
Naples, who worked closely with his architect,
Luigi Vanvitelli.
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The political and social model for Vanvitelli's
palace was Versailles. Like its French
predecessor, the palace was intended to display
the power and grandeur of an absolute Bourbon
monarchy
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Details of Dolphin fountain in Royal
Palace garden in Caserta (177380)
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Details of the fountain of Margarita
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Details of the fountain of Margarita
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Fontana di Cerere N i c o l a
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The Margaret  and Dolphin  fountains are followed
by four fountains inspired by legend
the Fountain of Aeolus, the Fountain of Ceres,
the Fountain of Venus and Adonis, and
the Fountain of Diana and Acteon
The Fountain of Ceres
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Fountain of Venus and Adonis 
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Fountain of Venus and Adonis 
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Fountain of Venus and Adonis 
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The garden is most famous for its River Road,
originally planned to run 30 km to Naples
Fountain of Venus and Adonis and the River Road 
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The cascade which launched the project of the
River Road is an operatic conception with a fall
of 78m
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The cascade and the Fountain of Diana and Acteon
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Acteon, transformed by Diana into a stag, is
hunted to death by his own hounds
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Diana, offended to be seen naked by a mortal,
punishes  Actaeon and turns him into a stag
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Diana  goddess of the fertility of the fields,
surrounded by her eight nymphs
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The basin plays an enormously important role in
Vanvitellis project in fact, it receives the
water that gushes from a grotto eight meters
above it and is conveyed into the basin by means
of the Carolino conduit, the complex plumbing
designed and constructed specifically to feed the
entire system of the Parks water Way
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Fourteen statues of hunters and nymphs ornate the
balustrade in front of the fountains large basin
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Text Internet Pictures Sanda Foisoreanu
Gabriela Cristescu
Internet All  copyrights  belong to their
 respective owners Presentation Sanda
Foisoreanu
2018
Sound Chiara Zeffirelli Opera Trance -
Cuor Senza Sangue (Odji De C.)