The final day of our South Trip revolved around a visit to the Baroque palace at Caserta, about an hour north of Naples. Like an humbled Versailles (that French disaster is surreal in comparison), Caserta presented itself with a still stunning level of opulence. The royal families who lived in Caserta were relatives of those living in Versailles (those crazy royal power marriages, you know) so there were very obvious and intentional similarities between the two.
Can you name the movie featuring these stairs? (Hint: It's Star Wars. One of the bad ones that no one really ever watches...2 maybe?).
This was unfortunately as close to the Caserta gardens as I came...absolutely torrential rain kept me huddled outside the cafe near the entrance. Hmmm, coffee or wet clothes on a 3 hour busride? Uno cappucino, please.
Caserta showed off it's richness in its fine details. For some reason, I was constantly drawn to the excessive details of the custom windows...
...and the elaborate marble floors showing off the countless variations of Italian marble...
And the quite elaborate/verging on ugly chandeliers...
But Caserta's highlight for my lil' interior architecture self was its furniture...Baroque without being so gilded and ornamental that it was nauseating (cough*Versailles*cough)...
How cute are those his and hers Baroque chairs? Way cute! Perhaps they sell these in the gift shop...
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