Caserta On the trail

The Royal Palace of Caserta: state rooms, park and English Garden

Caserta

Vanvitelli built a palace to answer Versailles, then ran a water staircase up the hill behind it so the fountains climb into the distance until your eye gives up. The apartments are the smaller half of the day.

How the day goes

  1. The great staircase and the state rooms, then the long run of royal apartments.
  2. Out of the back into the park, onto the avenue of fountains going uphill.
  3. The English Garden at the far end, made to look wild, with its fake ruins and cold bathing pool.
  4. Work out your order first: once you leave, the same ticket does not let you back in.

The park is long and the palace is large — this is a whole day, and the walk to the top fountain is what people underestimate.

Where it is

Caserta at its real position from Rome, with everywhere else we list behind it — so you can see how far out this one is.

Caserta, and where it is from Rome Caserta drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 134 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 134 min Rome Caserta

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Piazza Carlo di Borbone, 81100 Caserta (CE), the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 2 h 14drive from the middle of Rome
  • 194 kmeach way
  • 6 h 30once you are there
  • Rent a car for the day

    The day stays yours: you leave when you want, stop where you want, and come back when the light goes.

    • You pick it up in Rome and drop it back in Rome
    • No timetable to build the day around
    • The stops on the way are the good part, and they need a car

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  • Have a driver take you, door to door

    No parking to find, no wrong turns, and you leave when the day is done.

    • Picked up where you are staying, dropped back there
    • No parking to find and no ZTL to worry about
    • Nobody spends the day driving

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Also around Caserta

Caserta In the old stones

Belvedere di San Leucio

A viewpoint at Caserta.

Free — nothing to pay

Just turn up — open air, any hour

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Caserta In the old stones

The cathedral of Casertavecchia

A Romanesque cathedral at Caserta, from the twelfth century.

Free — nothing to pay

Just turn up

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Caserta In the old stones

Piazza Carlo III

A square in Caserta, built by Luigi Vanvitelli.

Free — nothing to pay

Just turn up — open air, any hour

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Clip into a harness and cross the trees: from age four there is a course to do.

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