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In salt and decorated saloons splendidly, furniture, paintings, sculptures and porcelains of house Borbone. In the chapel manger of the Bench in Naples.
Historical signs
The splendid construction was raised beginning from 1600 for one of the greatest and populous capitals of the Spanish empire. The building, inhabited first from the Spanish viceroys, from the Austrians, from the Borbones and finally from the Savoias, has been center and image of the power, as well as I untie some historical stories of Naples and the Midday for almost four centuries.
The project was entrusted by the viceroy, Fernando Ruiz de Castro, to the architect Domenico Fontana, among the most famous architects of the time, draftsman of the Rome of Sisto V.
The native squared body had widened later one century with the New " Arm " wanted by Charles of Borbone. In the eight hundred, after a fire, Ferdinando II of Borbone commanded radicals jobs of setup of the Building. The restaurations, conducted by the architect Gaetano Genovese, they widened and they regularized, without twisting , the ancient factory, conferring her an unitary and coherent architectural imprint. It was born in that years the "Ala of the Parties" and a new façade toward the sea solemnized by a tall plinth of bugnato and by a quick tower-belvedere.
E' entirely of the Fountain the long façade manierista. To end Eight hundred the external niches were busy from gigantic statues of the Kings of Naples, the first ones of the respective dynasties (Roger the Norman one, Fred II of Svevia, Charles I of Angiò, Alfonso I in Aragon, Charles V of Asburgo, Charles III of Borbone, Gioacchino Murat, Vittorio Emanuele II of Savoia). Á. the center of the façade they jump the real and viceregal coats of arms; under the balcony of parade it is instead the coat of arms of the Savoias.
Entered the Building it is accessed the Courtyard of honor that preserves intact the architectural imprint fontaniana. Of forehead is a nineteenth-century fountain with statue of Fortune. To the left him it goes toward the Gardens, to the right in the Courtyard of the Carriages and the Courtyard of the Belvedere.
The historical apartment
Real apartment - offers the real rooms of label to the visit to the noble Plan, as you are been delivered by the history there, with you furnish him of the epoch wisely distributed. In the seventies some rooms have been systematized to gallery of works of art with arrangement type thematic and historical-stylistic. They have not come there, also for the serious damages and the dispossessions suffered from the building during the last war, the rooms and you furnish him of more daily use (bedrooms, baths, kitchens, etc.).
The native seventeenth-century decoration is documented above all today by the frescos of historical subject of taste slow-manierista that they decorate the most ancient rooms with cycles of paintings directed to exalt glory and fortune of the winning Spaniards. In the Seven hundred Charles of Borbone it came to give dignity of capital of an autonomous kingdom to Naples. Also Charles widened and made to embellish Royal Building with pictorial masterpieces of that years and with the beautiful ceilings of the Rooms of the Regina (white plasters on fund gold). we Owe to the taste of Carolina Murat many of the you furnish furniture of neoclassic taste.
You it accesses the historical apartment for a monumental and bright Staircase of honor conceived in 1651 and then systematized and decorated by G. Genovese between 1838 and 1858. The Staircase is furnished, in the inferior zone, of white and rosy marbles decorated with military trophies and allegorical bas-reliefs.
A great deal beautiful it is the rich marmoreal baluster of pierced marble, in the zone superior monumental statues in chalk (the Fortitude, the Justice, the Clemency and the Prudence). The end of the Staircase is introduced us in the bright Ambulatory, protected from eight hundred glass door.
Teatrino of Court - was prepared by Ferdinando Fuga in 1768. A great deal damaged in the last war it preserves the native 12 statues in cartapesta raffiguranti Apollo, Minerva, Mercury and the nine muses. It entertained representations of funny works of Paisiello, Cimarosa and Piccinni.
A lot of they are the visitable Rooms, rich of paintings, frescos, statues, tapestries and furniture of epoch; this is the list of it without detaining us on the wonder that we can admire:
It salts Diplomatic - Saletta Neoclassica - Fastis of Alfonso the Magnanimous one - Room of the Throne - the Ambassadors' Saloon - Room of Maria Cristina of Savoia - Room of the Gran Heads - Room of Flemishes - the King's Study - Room of the Six hundred Neapolitan - Room of the Painting of Landscape - Luca's Giordano Room - Six hundred Painting Room - Room of the Painting Emiliana - Room of the Dead Natures - Neoclassic Room - Saloon of Ercole - Room XXIII - Don's Chisciotte Room - eight hundred Neapolitan Painting of Landscape Room - Frescos of D.A. Vaccaro - Room of the Watches of the body - Real Chapel.
The Real Gardens rise in an area that has been held always green from the ruling Royal to Naples to depart some foundation of Castelnuovo with the Angioinis, at the end of the XIII century. In viceregal epoch the garden was systematized to park with avenues, statues and secret " gardens ". The municipal great jobs of amplification and restauration to half the eight hundred also interested the gardens where big number of plants were installed, magnolie, lecci, cried rare of great variety and cromatismo.Il garden had a new romantic sketch "to English" with aiuole and sinuous paths to the search of unpublished views on the gulf, the Vesuvius and the hill of St. Martin and it became aspired destination of the travellers to Naples in the eight hundred. The garden was surrounded in that years from a magnificent iron railing with lances to gilded point, on which it opens, really in front of Castelnuovo, an entry delimited by statues in iron of Palafrenieri (known as "bronze Horses") the czar's gift Nicola I to Ferdinando II.
Visiting Time : Mundays to Saturdays 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. , Sundays 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.;
Closed on Wednesday. Entry £ 8.000 Euro 4,14 - Courtyards and Gardens can freely be visited
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