Caserta Gardens

The great palace building and original furnishings at Caserta should rank among the top few of such sights in Europe. For us, however, the gardens, and especially the English Garden--a multi-acre park really--have to rank among the very best things we have seen.

The garden runs a mile or more, up a man-made series of

cascades, then a man-made water-fall, to the top of the

mountain; the English Garden is on the right 

From the pond at the foot of the water-fall, looking back to

the palace

Including today's wedding pix pix

The pond and waterfall and cascade above

Pond sculpture; sculpture everywhere

Some of the quarter mile of lower cascades

In the English Garden, beautiful old pines

everywhere

And Cedars of Lebanon

And trees weird-worthy of New Zealand

Rock gardens, leading to a beautiful pond and

A folly/re-creation of Pompei--after all, these

were the royalty mining Pompei for its

treasures

Everything in bloom

Closer up

The grounds, a carpet of wild-flowers



Vicki assembling a bouqet



You can never have enough Follies at your Royal Palace;

this one a temple on an island in a pond

But it's time to head back to the palace; we're seriously

considering a trip back to Caserta, from Rome, to see the

gardens again