Royal Palace of Caserta | Reggia di Caserta, ITALY

The Royal Palace of Caserta is a magnificent palace just a short train ride from Naples, Italy. It was designated a UNESCO world heritage site in 1997. Often compared with the more famous Palace of Versailles in France, Caserta is actually twice as large as Versailles, though the gardens are not quite as extensive. The Royal Palace of Caserta has been featured in several feature films, such as Angels and Demons and Mission Impossible III, and many more.
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:44 Introducing the Reggia di Caserta
01:51 Getting to the Reggia
02:21 Visit Recommendations
02:58 Visiting Inside the Reggia
09:36 Our Big Italian Adventure
09:57 Visiting the Gardens
13:08 The English Garden
13:44 Our Recommendation
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Reggia di Caserta photo credits
Various exterior, interior, and garden photos: reggiadicaserta.cultura.gov.it/
Reggia front from station: Photo by Mario Thomas - Pexels.com
Versailles outside: Photo by Joan Costa - Pexels.com
Versailles front courtyard: Photo by Manon Segur - Pexels.com
Versailles garden statue: Photo by Masood Aslami - - Pexels.com

[@ZakhadWOW]

Mille Grazie for this brilliant and thorough video about one of the most amazing places Ive ever visted. Ive seen 3 other MASSIVE palaces, which were converted to the world finest museaums: Winter Palace (Hermitage) in Leningrad, THe Louvre Palace in Paris, and the Vatican Museum, a former palace for the extensive Vatican hierarchy. I have also visited Versailles, going all the way from that main entrance in the giant courtyard, to the farthest SW wall/gate area.. Miles from the front gate. I was stupid enough to try and row down the grand canal, but my hands were NOT up to that task! LOL I was stationed at the Naval Support Activity, Hospital specifically from 1987-1991 when it was in the Agnano district, so I got to see many wonderful things in Campania!

[@OurBigItalianAdventure]

Thanks for the support of the video and our channel. It encourages us as we work to produce more videos. (We’re in Puglia right now, a region new to us snd and a fascinating one, so we’ll have a series of videos out in the next few weeks.) We really enjoyed the Reggia di Caserta, but since it’s little known, especially compared to Campania’s other sights (Pompeii, Ercolano, Amalfi), it gets overlooked. The video has gotten more views than we expected, which is nice. Another favorite place of ours is Paestum. We were there in 1989, when it was on no one’s radar. We walked nearly alone among the ruins of the many still standing temples. I’ve heard it’s become much more crowded, but I still recommend it to friends, especially if the haven’t seen Agrigento. I’d love to see the Winter Palace and St. Petersburg someday, but who knows when that might be possible. That was quite a row to attempt! Oh, to be young enough again to even think of trying! Thanks for your service to our country.

[@paddygoodwin7508]

Thanks for sharing this very informative video I am hoping to visit next week and really looking forward to it with the benefit of your excellent presentation…

[@OurBigItalianAdventure]

I think you’ll enjoy it. It’s a bit different from other palaces, especially in the gardens.

[@carmendeledda5799]

La Reggia di Caserta ha 2000 stanze e anche un piccolo teatro da 500 posti, bellissimo. Non ha niente da invidiare a Versailles,il giardino è spettacolare e difficilmente replicabile.

[@OurBigItalianAdventure]

Sono d’accordo. Spettacolare.

[@captainufo4587]

Room to room access was common from the middle ages all the way to the early modern era, not just in Italy but in all of Europe. It helped with airflow and heating during the cold season (air flows naturally from room to room much better if they open in a sequence rather than having them open on a hallway). People indeed had to walk through someone else's room, but private bedrooms and apartments usually were at the corners of a building, so to be on a dead end. On the noble floor (that is, where the owner/lord of the mansion lived), the rooms in the middle were either living rooms, offices, studies, music/reading rooms, etc, or destined to the lord's personal chamber servant and staff.

[@OurBigItalianAdventure]

Thanks! This all makes sense. I’ve wondered about this for years. Now I have a good explanation.

[@danieled.4582]

Congratulations for your very precise and detailed videos! Speaking of Italian Reggies in comparison with Versailles, perhaps you don't know the palace of Venaria Reale (near Turin, my city). It is one of the Savoy residences part of the UNESCO site since 1997. It was designed and built BEFORE Versailles which was inspired by Venaria in particular for the gardens with the "telescopic" perspective. After many vicissitudes that led to its near ruin, so much so that in the 1950s someone thought of demolishing it permanently, the palace has been magnificently restored. Come and see it! Greetings from Turin! 😊

[@OurBigItalianAdventure]

Ciao da South Carolina e grazie per i complimenti! Abbiamo avuto il piacere di visitare Torino due anni fa e siamo stati colpiti dalla bellezza e la cortesia degli abitanti. Abbiamo fatto un tour del palazzo, ma non mi ricordo che è più vecchio di Versailles! Torino è infatti una città che deve sapere più rinomata per turisti, ma forse sarebbe meglio che rimane sotto il radar e non troppo pieno did turisti. L’ultima visita è stata solo due giorni e abbiamo l’intenzione di tornarci, particolarmente che, dopo l’ultima visita, abbiamo conosciuto un professore all’università. Ovviamente, non posso offerti palazzi o altri siti così vecchi qui, ma nostra zona è esplorata nella metà degli ‘500, molto presto per l’America. Purtroppo, rimangono solo alcuni rovini delle fortificazioni degli spagnoli e dopo i francesi e gli inglesi..

[@ZakhadWOW]

also Stupinigi, SW of TUrin, the Hunting Lodge, so to speak. Versailles combined "summer palace" and Hunting Lodge in one - understandable given the huge forest around it. For the Kingdomof Piemonte/Sardinia you have the Palazzo Reale in TUrn iwht the attached chapel where the shroud is housed, and Venaria as Summer Palace ,and Stupinigi. For the Kingdom of Naples/Two Sicilies you have the Palazzo Reale in Napoli with the attached San Carlo Teatro, a century older than La Scala; Hunting Lodge would be the Palazzo Capodimonte, and then the Reggia di Caserta.

[@OurBigItalianAdventure]

@ZakhadWOW interesting comparison of these regal residences. Thanks! We’ve visited the Palazzo Reale in Napoli, but unfortunately San Carlo was undergoing renovation. We have also seen the Savoia palace in Torino, but I just learned of the others from you. We really like Torino. This gives us even more reasons to go back soon!

[@susancalvert8059]

Very interesting! I love your videos! 😊

[@OurBigItalianAdventure]

Thanks! We enjoy making them. Feel free to post any questions. We’ll do our best to answer them.

[@gozzilla78]

Thank you!!

[@OurBigItalianAdventure]

You’re welcome. It’s a great place to visit and, having been in January I can’t say for sure, but I don’t think it’s too crowded even in the summer, from what I’ve read.

[@christopherflux6254]

I’m going to Caeserta in two weeks

[@OurBigItalianAdventure]

Great! I hope the weather is nice so you can really enjoy the gardens. They’ll be even nicer in May than when we saw them in late January.

[@giulianoradice4715]

Tutti conoscono la Galleria degli Specchi di Versailles ma ben pochi sanno che c'è una Galleria degli Specchi anche a Milano a Palazzo Clerici. Ovviamente è molto più piccola ma è molto più preziosa perché fu affrescata da G.B.TIEPOLO, il più grande pittore del millesettecento.

[@OurBigItalianAdventure]

Grazie! Non ho mai sentito di Palazzo Clerici. Mi è piaciuta la Galleria a Versailles quando l’ho visitata molti anni fa (1997?) quindi devo fare una visita a Clerici la prossima volta a Milano.

[@giulianoradice4715]

​@@OurBigItalianAdventure Milano è sottovalutata. Non è solo la città dell'Ultima Cena di Leonardo ma è anche una città di musei importantissimi. La Pinacoteca di Brera è uno dei musei più importanti d'Europa. Il Museo del Castello possiede la collezione di avori tardo romani e bizantini più importante del mondo. Il N.Y.T. ha definito il Museo Poldi Pezzoli il più bello del mondo. È ovviamente un'esagerazione. Comunque è senz'altro un museo interessantissimo. Avrei moltissime cose da aggiungere ma chiudo raccomandandovi una visita a Bergamo, una città incredibilmente piena di tesori d'arte

[@OurBigItalianAdventure]

Dobbiamo passare più tempo a Milano. Ci siamo stati solo 2 volte e abbiamo visitato solo i siti più famosi: duomo, La Scala, ecc.

[@giulianoradice4715]

​@@OurBigItalianAdventure a Milano la Pinacoteca Ambrosiana è generalmente trascurata dai turisti: ecco che cosa perdono: la più bella natura morta del mondo (Caravaggio), l'unico ritratto di uomo di Leonardo da Vinci, il Codice Atlantico di Leonardo, capolavori di Tiziano, Guido Reni,Canova,Appiani, Thorvaldsen e, importantissima, la SCUOLA DI ATENE di Raffaello. Ovviamente si dirà che io sbaglio perché tutti sanno che la Scuola di Atene è in Vaticano. Invece no, non sbaglio perché questa Pinacoteca conserva, unica al mondo, il cartone preparatorio di questo capolavoro. È una specie di doppio della Scuola di Atene! Penso di aver abusato della vostra pazienza perciò prometto di non intervenire più.

[@OurBigItalianAdventure]

No, mi piace queste raccomandazioni. Non sono un esperto nelle cose italiane, e ci aiuti programmare i prossimi viaggi. A proposito di questo, cosa puoi dirci su Torino? Ci abbiamo visitato una volta e ci è piaciuta, quindi vogliamo tornarci.