The Reggia di Caserta will host from December 2025, in the Grand Gallery of the Royal Palace, the exhibition Queens: plots of culture and diplomacy between Naples and Europe. More than 100 works from Italian and international museums and institutions will be on display. An event that aims to celebrate the role of its sovereigns over the centuries.
The museum, which is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, will thus close 2025 with an exhibition dedicated to the queens who, between the 18th century and the first half of the 20th century, played a key role in the construction, development and political-cultural influence of the Kingdom of Naples until the birth of the Italian Republic. These included Elisabeth Farnese, Maria Amalia of Saxony, Maria Caroline of Habsburg-Lorraine, the queens of the Napoleonic period Julia Clary and Caroline Murat, Maria Isabella with the Bourbon Restoration, and then Maria Christina of Savoy, Maria Theresa of Habsburg-Teschen, Maria Sofia of Bavaria, and finally the queens of the Savoy: Margaret, Helena of Montenegro, and Maria Jose of Belgium.
Educated women with strong personalities, raised in duty and trained to uphold the stability of the kingdom, while always publicly keeping themselves in the background of the ruler. Queens played a key role in ensuring the continuity of dynasties and influenced the strategic choices of the modern state.
The exhibition is organized by the Reggia di Caserta Museum and Opera Laboratori, in collaboration with important international partners such as Château de Versailles (France), Palacio Real in Madrid and Galería de las Colecciones Reales (Spain), the Palace of Schönbrunn (Austria), Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Germany), along with numerous Italian institutions such as the Royal Palace of Naples, the State Archives of Naples and Caserta, the Capodimonte Museum, the Reggia di Venaria and the Royal Museums of Turin. The initiative also enjoys the patronage of the Network of European Royal Residences.
It is precisely the Network, inspired by the exhibition at the Royal Palace of Caserta, that will dedicate Palace Day 2025 to the female figures who, through the centuries, have helped create and maintain European royal dynastic networks. On July 19 each year, #PalaceDay involves royal residences, cultural bodies and public institutions around the world in a collective celebration on social networks to share and enhance their common cultural heritage.
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