A walk under the moonlight, among water features, light plays and Baroque fires in Italy’s most beautiful parks. The stories and music by Peppe Servillo, Fausto Mesolella and Avion Travel, together with the fantastic visions of painter Giuseppe Ragazzini, accompany the visitors along the path, that starts with the recollection of Hercules and its myth, through the story of the Latin Hercules, the big statue that stands in the middle of Vanvitelli’s “Cannocchiale”, in front of the monumental stairs of the Royal Palace.
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Then, for the first time, a visit to the “old wood” and to the Castelluccia (built between 1769 and 1773 for the entertainment of young Ferdinand IV, who used it to organise fake terrestrial battles) recently restored and open to public. The path continues to the Large Fishpond, where the king prepared his attacks playing naval combat. Here, the luxurious final show with water plays and fireworks on baroque music pays an homage to the splendour of the king’s age, when all the most important feasts at court ended with a sparkle in the deep blue night sky. The event sees the partnership of Rai Teche: the TV archive put on disposal footages and documentaries on the Bourbon history, an integral feature of the itinerary.
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The visit (1h 30′ long) start one hour before sunset. Ticket cost: 22 euros. Free for children under 16. Special price for groups: 18 euros (30 people min.), 16 euros (70 people min.). Price for disabled: 14 euros (free for the companion)
An original exhibition cured by the Collezione Tirelli Costumi, which for the first time displays, in Caserta’s Royal Palace, an authentic dress of Marie Caroline, the same she wears in a 1789 painting by Filippo Marsigli, acting as background to the original. The twenty-two dresses in the scenic reconstruction of the exhibition by Flora Brancatella underline the creativity of the Bourbons, who, thanks to the Seterie di San Leucio, ruled the fashion world during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Three centuries of Russian history on display at Caserta’s Royal Palace. The Vanvitellian complex hosts 100 masterpieces, many of which exhibited for the first time. Jewels, costumes, weapons and churches and palaces decorations, connected with famous personalities and events of the Russian history linked with the Italian cultural tradition. The most ancient finds date back to Ivan III’s government in the 16th century and, among these, are fragments of white stone that used to embellish the portals of the Kremlin’s churches and palaces. The main core of the exhibition is made up by a group of Italian art works of the 16th and 17th century, arrived in Moscow thanks to the export trade and diplomatic relations between Italy and Russia, and by samples of Italian firearms, built by the masters of the famous Cominazo family in Brescia. In the end, an section dedicated to the portraits of the Tzar Aleksey Mikhailovch and Tzarine Natalya Kirillovna, picturesque views of the Kremlin and reproductions of the illuminations, drawn from the Book of the election of the Tzar Mikhail Fedorovich with images of the great princely palace and the Cathedral Plaza.
