For the holiday season 2025, Dream of Italy is celebrating Advent by revealing one of our favorite travel treasures for each day. See list of all days.
Day 10: Built by architect Luigi Vanvitelli for King Charles VII of Naples in 1751, the Reggia di Caserta (Royal Palace of Caserta) is the largest former royal palace in the world and on par in lavishness with Versailles. The 300-acre compound features Italian and English gardens, a waterfall, a vineyard, a silk factory and a flour mill. The 1,200 rooms housed staff and residents as well as government offices; in modern times, it was featured in the Star Wars films Episode I: The Phantom Menace and Episode II: Attack of the Clones.
See more of the Reggia di Caserta in the first Caserta episode of our Dream of Italy TV series.
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