Caserta (CE)
Realized by Luigi Vanvitelli for king Charles of Bourbon in 1752, the Royal Palace is characterized by a Majestic rectangular building with four courtyards connected by galleries and by a broad park w ..
San Leucio - Caserta
In 1750, Charles of Bourbon bought the hill of San Leucio, a shooting lodge near the Royal palace, from the princes Acquaviva of Caserta. Charles' successor, his son Ferdinand, wanted to promote t ..
Benevento
The Church, symbol of the late medieval Longobard architecture, original and creative, is part of the serial site "Italia Langobardorum. Centri di potere e di culto (568-774 d.C.)" and a Une ..
Amalfi (SA)
Positano is 36 kilometers of paradise away from Vietri sul Mare. Fourteen spots in total, each with its traditions and pecularities, worth visiting at least once in a lifetime. The places, immersed in ..
Pompei (NA)
On a rocky tableland formed by an ancient eruption stands the city of Pompeii that, due to the eruption of the Vesuvius in 79 A.C., was buried under 60 feet of ash and pumice. The city can be actually ..
Ercolano (NA)
The legendary foundation of Hercolanum is ascribed to Dionysius of Halicarnassus to Heracles, as he was returning from Spain. It covered a 20 hectares surface, for a population of around 4000 inhabita ..
Torre Annunziata (NA)
The name Oplontis appears, for the first time, in the Tabula Peutingeriana, a medieval copy of a travelling road map of theRoman empire, dating back, maybe, to the Augustan period. The ancient Oplonti ..
Velia - Ascea (SA)
The ancient Elea-Velia was born around the year 540 B.C., thanks to the exiles coming from the Greek city of Focea, today’s Turkey; in 88 B.C. it became a Roman municipium. The city occupies an area o ..
Padula (SA)
It’s one of Europe’s most important monastic complexes, proclaimed by Unesco World Heritage Site. The planimetric plan, the distribution and organization of the architectonic spaces, reflects the rel ..
Capaccio Paestum (SA)
Paestum, named Poseidonia during the Greek age, was founded at the beginning of the VI century B.C. by a group of Achaeans coming from Sybaris, who settled in the fertile plain on the south bank of th ..
