 |
The
Royal Lodge
|
The whole area measures about
300 metres of length and is formed, as said
above, by a central two-storey construction,
very elegant and simple, and two lateral constructions
linked to the main construction through two
vast halls; however, each room was strictly
connected to the others, just to show the absence
of barriers between the Court and the community.
|
|
Kitchens, the armoury and the personnel
rooms were located at the ground floor. Two symmetric
staircases led to the first floor, where the Royal
House was housed and there was a salon for the parties
organised after the hunting.
|
|
The
small chapel is of particular interest: its
typically eighteenth-century style, its decorations
(as those of the main constructions too) made
by the major artists of the Court, among which
Philip Hackert (frescoist and decorator of the
Royal Sites). Some tapestries by Pietro Durante
upon a design by Fischetti decorated the main
salon, whose ceiling had been painted by Fischetti.
|
Also this site, as many others, was
abandoned after 1861 and fell into ruin (even wicked
cases of “political iconoclasm”, since
frescoes depicting the Bourbons were scraped off…).
Now the site has been partly restored and since 1978
it is open to the public; it also houses the Museum
of Peasant Civilisation.
|
