The royal residence of Caserta, an architectural jewel near Naples, is undergoing a spectacular makeover. With its 1,200 rooms, 1,742 windows and 123 hectares of gardens, the castle was built from 1752 under the direction of the brilliant architect Luigi Vanvitelli, who died exactly 250 years ago.
The work undertaken to restore the palace to its original beauty requires tens of millions of euros, including 25 million under the mega-plan launched by Brussels to revive the economy of the Old Continent.