Naked statue of the goddess Venus bathing in the English Garden, Royal Palace or Reggia di Caserta, Italy. The sculptor Tommaso Solari created the statue around 1762.View of the Fountain of Venus and Adonis at the Royal Palace or Reggia di Caserta, Italy. This fountain group of sculptures represents the kneeling goddess asking her lover to take care during the hunt, as she fears for his safety, because the jealous god Mars has taken on the appearance of a wild boar to kill him. Cherubs and nymphs surround the figures standing on the travertine reef.Naked statue of the goddess Venus bathing in the English Garden, Royal Palace or Reggia di Caserta, Italy. The sculptor Tommaso Solari created the statue around 1762.Within the English Garden of the Reggia di Caserta in Italy, a pathway meanders alongside the cryptoporticus and encircles the Baths of Venus.View of statues inside the fake cryptoporticus found at the English Garden, Royal Palace or Reggia di Caserta, Italy. Several classical statues are from Pompeii and from the Farnese collection.A picturesque scene unfolds, featuring a waterfall nestled within the English Garden of the Royal Palace at Reggia di Caserta, Italy.Within the expansive lake situated in the English Garden of the Royal Palace at Reggia di Caserta, Italy, one can discover an abundance of lily pads.A replica of a classical temple situated by the expansive lake inside the English Garden at the Royal Palace of Caserta, Italy. Granite columns and dolomite, remnants of Pompeii’s ruins, are present in the temple.Caserta. Campania. Italy. View of the impressive fountain of Diana and Actaeon, in which the great cascade, a waterfall some 75 metres high, plunges. The sculpture group in the picture depicts the goddess Diana, the patron of chastity, who is bathing and whom nymphs surround.View of the fountain of Diana and Actaeon at the Royal Palace or Reggia di Caserta, Italy. The Great Cascade, a waterfall some 75 metres high, plunges into the fountain. The fountain statue group features the goddess Diana (on the right), the patron of chastity, bathing surrounded by nymphs. She takes offence when Actaeon the hunter (on the left) notices her and thus transforms him into a stag; he then defends himself against dogs that are tearing him apart.Rear view of the Fountain of Venus and Adonis at the Royal Palace or Reggia di Caserta, Italy. This fountain group of sculptures represents the kneeling goddess asking her lover to take care during the hunt, as she fears for his safety, because the jealous god Mars has taken on the appearance of a wild boar to kill him. Cherubs and nymphs surround the figures standing on the travertine reef.Caserta. Campania. Italy. View from behind the fountain of Venus and Adonis along the promenade that extends for 3 kilometres across the park in a straight line to the Royal Palace. To rival and even overshadow Versailles, designers lined the avenue with narrow lawns and punctuated it with cascades, ponds, groups of statues, and fountains with mythological themes.Caserta. Campania. Italy. View of the Fountain of Venus and Adonis. The sculptures in this fountain depict a kneeling goddess imploring her lover to be cautious on the hunt, as she is concerned for his well-being, fearing the jealous god Mars, who has transformed into a wild boar intending to kill him. Cherubs and nymphs encircle the figures on the travertine reef.Caserta. Campania. Italy. View of the fountain of Ceres, containing statues of Ceres, sea nymphs, tritons, dolphins playing the buccina horn, and Anapo and Simeto the river-gods.Flanking the cascading waters of the Fountain of Ceres at Italy’s Royal Palace (Reggia di Caserta) are bust sculptures.Sculptures adorn the curving balustrade of the fountain of Aeolus at the Royal Palace or Reggia di Caserta, Italy. The fountain comprises 29 zephyrs and wind gods, symbolically represented by winged statues spurting water from their mouths.View of the Fountain of Aeolus at the Royal Palace or Reggia di Caserta, Italy. The fountain comprises 29 zephyrs and wind gods, symbolically represented by winged statues spurting water from their mouths.Partial view of the Fountain of Aeolus at the Royal Palace or Reggia di Caserta, Italy. The fountain comprises 29 zephyrs and wind gods, symbolically represented by winged statues spurting water from their mouths.Caserta. Campania. Italy. View of a section of the 3-kilometre long avenue that extends across the park in a straight line from the Royal Palace to the great waterfall, some 75 metres high. Narrow lawns line it and cascades, ponds, groups of statues, and fountains with mythological themes punctuate it.Caserta. Campania. Italy. View of the little waterfalls or stepped cascades of the fountain of Venus and Adonis. In the background is the Great Cascade, a waterfall some 75 metres high which tumbles into the basin of Diana and Actaeon.View of the Fountain of the Dolphins at the Royal Palace or Reggia di Caserta.Campania. Italy. Gaetano Salomone created the spurting Dolphins fountain between 1776 and 1779.Caserta. Campania. Italy. View of the Margherita or Basket fountain at the end of the parterre with the rear of the Royal Palace of Caserta in the background. This fountain is the first of six fountains that adorn the central boulevard, which stretches for 3 kilometres.Caserta. Campania. Italy. View of three people, one with a pink umbrella, walking along the central boulevard at the rear of the Royal Palace. The avenue extends for 3 kilometres across the park in a straight line from the Royal Palace to the great waterfall, some 75 metres high. Designers created the avenue to rival and even overshadow Versailles, lining it with narrow lawns and punctuating it with cascades, ponds, groups of statues, and fountains with mythological themes.Caserta. Campania. Italy. View of the rear facade of the Royal Palace or Reggia di Caserta. The Baroque Palace comprises five storeys, 43 staircases, 1,790 windows and 1,200 rooms, all arranged around four courtyards.Caserta. Campania. Italy. View of one of the four courtyards of the sumptuous 18th-century Palace of Caserta, or Reggia di Caserta.Ceiling of the octagonal hall on the first floor of the Royal Palace, Reggia di Caserta, Italy. Illuminated by four large windows, the octagonal provides access to the Palatine Chapel and the Royal apartments.Looking down the grand central flight of steps known as the Staircase of Honour at the Royal Palace, Reggia di Caserta, Italy. The staircase connects the ground and first floors and comprises 116 steps created from blocks of Pietra Lumachella from Trapani, Sicily. It divides into two parallel flights of steps at the half-landing, guarded by two white marble lions. The entrance to the upper vestibule is at the end of the staircase.The Royal Palace, located in Caserta, Italy, features an elegant stairway within its grand structure.View of the central gallery of the Royal Palace, Reggia di Caserta, Italy. The central gallery is a splendid three nave portico with a series of Bigliemi marble columns supporting strong arcades, creating passageways to the four large courtyards. The gallery or portico is also known as the telescope, for the visual effect it has of the dazzling park it leads to.Caserta.Campania. Italy. View of the front façade of the sumptuous 18th century Palace of Caserta or Reggia di Caserta, built at the behest of Charles III of Bourbon and intended to be the pride of the Bourbon monarchy.
