Royal Palace of Caserta : the symbol of the greatness and power of the Bourbon kingdom

Naples is one of the oldest city in the world founded by Greek almost 2000 years ago. It has a really long and complex history. One of golden age of the city was during the Bourbon rule. The city in fact from the 1734 to the 1861 (when the unification of Italy was realised) was the rich and modern capital of a independent Kingdom under the Borbone King Charles III. One of the first project of the king was the construction of a royal residence that testified to the greatness and power of the Bourbon kingdom all over the world. The construction of the Royal Palace, which began on January 20th 1752, required twenty years of work and the effort of thousands of workers, in the early nineteenth century the exorbitant expense amounted to 4, 480, 651 ducats. Still today the Royal Palace of Caserta established itself among the most prestigious royal residences in Europe, a perfect synthesis of all the arts: architecture, painting, sculpture, decorative arts and even music with the creation of the Court Theatre.