Enriched by the silk from San Leucio and the paintings by Hackert, it was a splendid house, later on enhanced by constructions on the nearby dry land and, at the beginning of the century, by an elegant wooden bridge that connected it to the river-bank. It was an alcove for the Bourbons and a holiday house for Mozart, Rossini, the Tsar. Even though it has been stripped of all it’s furnishings, it still preserves it’s own particular fascinatio
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Casina Vanvitelliana in the Fusaro lake – B. Pinelli – X1X century