Caserta, Italy Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Further inland, a short train or bus ride direct from Naples, CASERTA , incongruously surrounded by a sprawl of industrial complexes and warehouses that stretches all the way back to Naples, is known as the "Versailles of Naples" for its vast eighteenth-century royal palace, which utterly dominates the town. There's not much point in coming here if you don't want to see this; if you do, be sure to also see the old village of Caserta Vecchia , 10km north of the modern town, where the population lived before the building of the palace. To get there by car, more or less the only way, make a left onto … more »