page_title: Giardino all'italiana
section_title: Palace of Caserta
hierarchical_section_title: Giardino all'italiana / Italian villas with notable gardens / Palace of Caserta
caption_attribution_description: Reggia di Caserta: prospettiva dalla fontana di Venere e Adone
context_page_description: The giardino all'italiana or Italian garden is stylistically based on symmetry, axial geometry and on the principle of imposing order over nature. It influenced the history of gardening, especially French gardens and English gardens.
context_section_description: The Royal Palace of Caserta (Italian: Reggia di Caserta) is a former royal residence in Caserta, constructed for the Bourbon kings of Naples. 
  The garden, a typical example of the Baroque extension of formal vistas, stretch for 120 ha, partly on hilly terrain. It is inspired by the Gardens of Versailles, but it is commonly regarded as superior in beauty. The park starts from the back façade of the palace, flanking a long alley with artificial fountains and cascades. There is an English garden in the upper part designed in the 1780s by Carlo Vanvitelli and the London-trained plantsman-designer John Graeffer, recommended to Sir William Hamilton by Sir Joseph Banks. It is an early Continental example of an English garden in the svelte naturalistic taste of Capability Brown.   
  The fountains and cascades, each filling a vasca ("basin"), with architecture and hydraulics by Luigi Vanvitelli at intervals along a wide straight canal that runs to the horizon, rivalled those at Peterhof outside St. Petersburg. These include:
  the Fountain of Diana and Actaeon (sculptures by Paolo Persico, Brunelli, Pietro Solari);
  the Fountain of Venus and Adonis (1770–80);
  the Fountain of the Dolphins (1773–80);
  the Fountain of Aeolus;
  the Fountain of Ceres.
  A large population of figures from classical antiquity were modelled by Gaetano Salomone for the gardens of the Reggia, and executed by large workshops.
caption: The Palace of Caserta
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