A Big Garden

The Royal Palace in Caserta is not only a really big building and museum. It's also a very big park, 120ha, with numerous fountains in a long cascade. Walking to the end will take most people an hour or two, while getting back is made easier by a bus.

A Royal Palace

A real gem to visit just east of Napoli is the Royal Palace in Caserta. Called the Swan song of Baroque it's a huge building, once the largest in Europe and today a great museum to visit. It's also a UN World Heritage site. With 1.200 rooms there's enough to see to last the whole day.

More Buda Castle

At Buda Castle in Budapest most of the statues and niches are lit at night, making this building stand out in grandness. The statue in the western forecourt is the Hortobágy horse wrangler taming a wild horse. It was originally in front of the riding school, but was moved here in 1983.