Royal Palace of Caserta, northwest wing of the royal palace opens to the public. An additional 3,000 square meters can be visited

From March 1, 2024, 3000 more square meters of the Royal Palace of Caserta will be open to visitors. After nearly a century, in fact, thenorthwest wing of the Royal Palace of the Reggia will be open to the public. The rooms of the Grand Gallery returned by the Air Force Specialists School and intended as a space for temporary exhibitions have been recovered, in implementation of the commissioner’s plan and at the conclusion of the interventions carried out with 2014-2020 Pon Culture and Development funds thanks to the collaboration of Service V of the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Culture.

The west wing of the Royal Palace, suitably refunctionalized, thus becomes a museum area: the ground floor will host educational activities, a conference room and the new bookshop; on the second floor, in the rooms of the Grand Gallery, will be halls and service rooms for temporary exhibitions.

For the occasion, the museum headquarters has chosen to dedicate the opening of these spaces to the perspective of the work of the architect who conceived the Royal Palace of Caserta, Luigi Vanvitelli, with the photographic exhibition Visioni by Luciano D’Inverno and Luciano Romano. An exhibition of their projects Attraversamenti and Genius et Loci - La drammaturgia dello sguardo will be held from March 1 to July 15, 2024.

The Reggia di Caserta is among the winners of the second edition of Strategia Fotografia, a call for proposals of the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture for the selection of proposals for the acquisition, production, conservation, and enhancement of photography and the Italian photographic heritage. The two photographic campaigns were created by Luciano D’Inverno and Luciano Romano. Fil rouge is precisely Luigi Vanvitelli and his work, between architecture and landscape. The shots, selected by the museum, have been brought together in a single exhibition, curated by Gabriella Ibello, conceived as a hypertext and a metatext that tell the story of the architect’s work and creative genius. With Attraversamenti, Luciano D’Inverno intends to rewrite in images the story of a vision that made possible the grand architectural and hydraulic engineering work of the Acquedotto Carolino, retracing Vanvitelli’s steps and following the path of water. Luciano Romano, with Genius et Loci. The Dramaturgy of the Gaze, intends to pay tribute to the master’s fundamental contribution to the evolution of modern architectural culture, showing through photography the beauty of Vanvitelli’s work in different places in Italy. Arrangements curated by Opera Laboratori. The shots will become part of the museum collection, increasing the Institute’s photographic archive. The Royal Palace of Caserta also intends to promote the development and knowledge of this universal language of art, a tool for communication and storytelling.

The final event of the Vanvitellian Celebrations will also be held on March 1 and 2. Two days of study and in-depth study of the “Construction Site,” in the new conference room in the west wing of the Royal Palace, with a rich program of talks by researchers and scholars on Luigi Vanvitelli’s masterpiece.

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Royal Palace of Caserta, northwest wing of the royal palace opens to the public. An additional 3,000 square meters can be visited

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