Caserta

Caserta, an Italian town, capital of Terra di Lavoro, and about 20 miles from Naples. The wines of the neighbourhood are noted, and there is a celebrated palace built after the designs of Vanvitelli, one of the architects of St. Peter's at Rome, with a park containing three different gardens, and a magnificent aqueduct nearly 20 miles long. There is a royal silk factory employing several hundred people.