When King Charles of Bourbon sent Louis Vanvitelli the Royal Palace of Caserta, he had in mind to compete in Versailles. Today, in addition to the magnificent royal palace, we can also admire the former parade ground that has been awarded the title of the largest square in Italy: it is Piazza Carlo di Borbone that, with its 130 thousand square meters of lawn, is kept inside the Royal Palace of Caserta. 

Designed by Luigi Vanvitelli in the second half of the eighteenth century and completed by his son Carlo in the early nineteenth century, The former square of arms with an elliptical shape is part of a much larger project that saw in the Caserta palace the starting point of the five most important streets of the city.