WALKING AROUND CASERTA
The centre of that original structure of Renaissance Caserta continues to be the heart of the nowadays city. It has taken the name from the great architect of the third transformation of Caserta, Luigi Vanvitelli, the square which was anciently the market, whose vast area is today occupied by the municipal villa, adorned with a fountain. The square also houses the monument to the father of the Royal Palace, work of the sculptor Onofrio Buccini from 1879. What remains of the Lombard tower overlook the square, in the north-western corner, and the adjoining Palazzo Acquaviva, which has kept its protagonist role of the city life like Palazzo della Prefettura. The Town Halland the Bank of Italy are located in piazza Vanvitelli, in confirming their initial Sixteenth-century function
From Piazza Vanvitelli you can reach corso Giannone, which is near the park of the Royal Palace and represents the starting point of the paths leading to the historic districts of the Bourbon Caserta: the Real Belvedere of San Leucio, nearly three kilometers away, the Reale Vaccheria, five kilometers away, up to the medieval village of Caserta Vecchia on the hill.
Always starting from Piazza Vanvitelli, through via Pollio, on the right you reach piazza Duomo, with the Nineteenth century cathedraldedicated to Saint Michael the Archangel
From piazza Duomo, you enter in the long via San Carlo, on which we see the Eighteenth-century Paternò Palace, historic residence of the noble Sicilian family, famous for its areas finely frescoed. Always from piazza Duomo you can, instead, continue the way in via SanGiovanni which leads to corso Trieste, the main city street, connecting Caserta to its Royal Palace.
The first stretch of corso Trieste ends in piazza Dante, formerly piazza dei Quattro Canti, referring to the four identical edifices, equipped with arcades, which represent its distinctive element. Continuing on corso Trieste, you get to piazza Gramsci, where there are Giardini della Flora. At the entrance, the statue of the Agriculture remembers the historic vocation of Campania Felix. Few more steps and you are in the wonderful vastness of piazza Carlo III, larger than Piazza San Pietro. There, the Royal Palace is ready to reveal its splendors.
