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Caserta is the capital of the province of Caserta
Province of Caserta

The Province of Caserta is a Provinces of Italy in the Campania region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Caserta. The former royal Caserta Palace is located near to the city....
 in the Campania
Campania

Campania is a Regions of Italy of southern Italy in Europe. The region has a population of around 5.8 million people, making it the second-most-populous region of Italy, its total area of 13,595 km? makes it the most densely populated region in the country....
 region of Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
. It is an important agricultural, commercial and industrial comune
Comune

In Italy, the comune, is the basic administrative division of both provinces and regions, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality....
 and city. Caserta is located on the edge of the Campanian plain at the foot of the Campanian Subapennine mountain range. The city is best known for the Palace of Caserta
Caserta Palace

The Royal Palace of Caserta, in Italian language Reggia di Caserta, is a former royal residence in Caserta, constructed for the Bourbon Kingdom of Naples....
.
History
Modern Caserta was established around the defensive tower built in Lombard
Lombards

The Lombards were a Germanic peoples originally from Northern Europe who settled in the valley of the Danube and from there invaded Byzantine Italian peninsula in 568 under the leadership of Alboin....
 times by Pando
Pando of Capua

Pando the Rapacious was the second son of Landulf I of Capua and brother of Lando I of Capua. When his father died , Lando succeeded to the countship, but Pando and their younger brother Landulf II of Capua were associated as co-rulers ....
, Prince of Capua.






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Caserta is the capital of the province of Caserta
Province of Caserta

The Province of Caserta is a Provinces of Italy in the Campania region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Caserta. The former royal Caserta Palace is located near to the city....
 in the Campania
Campania

Campania is a Regions of Italy of southern Italy in Europe. The region has a population of around 5.8 million people, making it the second-most-populous region of Italy, its total area of 13,595 km? makes it the most densely populated region in the country....
 region of Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
. It is an important agricultural, commercial and industrial comune
Comune

In Italy, the comune, is the basic administrative division of both provinces and regions, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality....
 and city. Caserta is located on the edge of the Campanian plain at the foot of the Campanian Subapennine mountain range. The city is best known for the Palace of Caserta
Caserta Palace

The Royal Palace of Caserta, in Italian language Reggia di Caserta, is a former royal residence in Caserta, constructed for the Bourbon Kingdom of Naples....
.

History


Modern Caserta was established around the defensive tower built in Lombard
Lombards

The Lombards were a Germanic peoples originally from Northern Europe who settled in the valley of the Danube and from there invaded Byzantine Italian peninsula in 568 under the leadership of Alboin....
 times by Pando
Pando of Capua

Pando the Rapacious was the second son of Landulf I of Capua and brother of Lando I of Capua. When his father died , Lando succeeded to the countship, but Pando and their younger brother Landulf II of Capua were associated as co-rulers ....
, Prince of Capua. Pando destroyed the original city around 863. The tower is now part of the Palazzo della Prefettura which was once the seat of the counts of Caserta, as well as a Royal residence. The original population moved from Casertavecchia
Casertavecchia

Casertavecchia, a frazione of Caserta, is an Italy medieval village that lies at the foot of the Tifatini Mountains located 10 km north-east of the City of Caserta at an altitude of approximately 401 meters....
 (former bishopric
Bishopric

Bishopric may refer to:*Diocese an ecclesiastical region run by a bishop in the Roman Catholic, Orthodox Christian, Anglican and some Lutheran churches....
 seat) to the current site in the 16th century.

The city and vicinity were the property of the Acquaviva
Acquaviva

Places:There are communes that have the name Acquaviva in Italy:*Acquaviva Collecroce, in the province of Campobasso *Acquaviva delle Fonti, in the province of Bari ...
 family, who, being pressed by huge debts, sold all the land to the royal family. The royal family then selected Caserta for the construction of their new palace, which, being in land was seen as more defensible than the previous palace fronting the Bay of Naples.

Caserta was the birthplace of the Italian writer Maria Valtorta
Maria Valtorta

Maria Valtorta was an Italian writer and poet, considered by many to be a mystic. Her work centers on Catholic Christian themes. Her followers believe that she had personally conversed with Jesus Christ in her visions of Jesus and Mary....
.

Main sights


  • Caserta's main attraction is its Royal Palace (listed as a UNESCO
    UNESCO

    United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations established on 16 November 1945....
     World Heritage Site
    World Heritage Site

    A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a site that is on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 Sovereign state which are elected by their General Assembly for a four-year term....
    ). The palace was created in the 18th century by the Italian architect Luigi Vanvitelli
    Luigi Vanvitelli

    Luigi Vanvitelli was an Italian engineer and architect. The most prominent eighteenth-century architect of Italy, he practiced a sober classicizing academy Baroque style that made an easy transition to Neoclassicism....
     as a Versailles
    Versailles

    Versailles , formerly de facto capital of the kingdom of France, is now a wealthy suburb of Paris and is still an important administrative and judicial centre....
    -like residence ("Reggia") for the Bourbon
    House of Bourbon

    The House of Bourbon is an important European royal house, a branch of the Capetian dynasty. Bourbon kings first ruled Kingdom of Navarre and France in the 16th century....
     kings of Naples and Sicily
    Sicily

    Sicily is an Autonomous regions with special statute of Italy. Of all the regions of Italy, Sicily covers the largest land area at 25,708 km? and currently has just over five million inhabitants....
    . It is one of the most visited monuments in the country. In it you can find more than 1200 rooms, decorated in various styles. It has been the set for several famous movies such as Star Wars
    Star Wars

    Star Wars is an epic film space opera Media franchise initially conceived by George Lucas. The first film in the franchise was simply titled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, but later had the subtitle Episode IV: A New Hope added to distinguish it from its sequels and prequels....
     and Mission Impossible III. The park is long and contains many waterfalls, lakes and gardens, as well as a very famous English garden
    English garden

    The term English garden or English park is used in Continental Europe to refer to a type of natural-appearing large-scale landscape garden with its origins in the English landscape gardens of the 18th century, especially those associated with Capability Brown....
    .


  • Palazzo Vecchio ("Old Palace"), a construction of the 14th century renovated by Luigi Vanvitelli as provisional residence for the royal court.
  • The Cathedral (18th century).


Selected Frazioni

  • Casertavecchia
    Casertavecchia

    Casertavecchia, a frazione of Caserta, is an Italy medieval village that lies at the foot of the Tifatini Mountains located 10 km north-east of the City of Caserta at an altitude of approximately 401 meters....
     is the ancient centre of the comune and former bishopric seat.
  • San Leucio resort, seat of famous Royal silk workshops, also included in the World Heritage List.
  • Vaccheria, which housed the stable of the Royal cattle.
  • Falciano is a former bishop seat; it includes a 16th century palace.
  • Piedimonte di Casolla has an ancient Benedictine
    Benedictine

    Benedictine refers to the spirituality and consecrated life in accordance with the Rule of St Benedict, written by Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century for the cenobitic communities he founded in central Italy....
     abbey, built over a Roman temple dedicated to Diana
    Diana (mythology)

    In Roman mythology, Diana was the goddess of the hunting, being associated with wild animals and woodland, and also of the moon. In literature she was the Greek deities and their Roman and Etruscan counterparts of the Greek mythology Artemis, though in Cult she was Italy, not Greek, in origin....
    .


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