Ferdinando
1V of Bourbon was probably so taken with the suggestive atmosphere of the
locality and the abundance of game, that he decided he wanted a country house
there, for when he went hunting. The architect who designed it was Carlo
Vanvitelli, who, planning it, tried hard not to alter the magical air
surrounding the place and so, on a small volcanic island not far from the banks
of the lake, he constructed the grey-blue polygonal building that gives the
impression of having surfaced from the
below, colouring itself with the same identical colour of the lake.
The
Casina Vanvitelliana (Vanvitelli’s Country House) in the Fusaro lake –
A.
Vianelli – X1X century