Discover Caserta

Caserta, the capital of the province of Caserta, is an important agricultural, commercial and industrial comune and town that stands on the edges of the Campanian plain, at the foot of the first slopes of the Campanian Subapennines of Italy. The city is well known for the palace of Caserta. Everyone knows it as the city of the palace, the sumptuous residence which wonderfully epitomises the luxury of the Bourbon kings: but this is not the only point of interest in the city, which grew very rapidly within a 19th-c. centre built on a linear plan. Caserta really came into being because of its magnificent royal palace: before the palace was constructed there, the city was only a small farming town, which grew over time until it had attracted all the inhabitants of Casertavecchia ("Old Caserta"). Today, the city has a prevalently modern appearance: in the centre, the beautiful church of San Sebastiano, the work of Luigi Vanvitelli, architect of the palace of Caserta, and the 19th-c. cathedral are also points of interest.