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Staircase of the Royal Palace, Caserta, Italy, by Luigi Vanvitelli, 1752

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Royal Palace

palace, Caserta, Italy

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design by Vanvitelli

In Luigi Vanvitelli
…an Italian architect whose enormous Royal Palace at Caserta (1752–74) was one of the last triumphs of the Italian Baroque.
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importance to Naples

In Naples: The Castel Nuovo
…the red complex of the Royal Palace, whose northeast wing, set in a small park, houses the great collections of the National Library of Naples. The main facade of the Royal Palace grandly faces, southwest across the vast Piazza del Plebiscito, the basilica of San Francesco di Paola, which—erected in…
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