La Reggia di celluloide. Usi e finzioni del Palazzo Reale di Caserta al cinema

No other historical building in the world has been used in the movies without being respected in its historical and artistic features more than the Royal Palace of Caserta. If Versailles is usually chosen as location for representing itself, as well as to set the events that have happened through the time, at Caserta the splendid halls and the luxuriant gardens are generally utilized to come out as some other places: for instance, in La Maja desnuda (Henry Koster, 1958) it appears as the Palacio Real of Madrid, and in Waterloo (Sergej Bondarčuk, 1970) it is shown as the Fontainebleau Castle. When it is used as the location of Bourbon family, who have inhabited there, very rarely its times and artistic styles are respected. The Reggia acts as a generic seat of power. But also, the sumptuousness of the Vanvitelli architecture has allowed to the American film productions to use this building as a Vatican place and even as a space age location for the recent Star Wars episodes.