Shore excursions

Royal Palace of caserta and Spartacus tour of Capua for all lovers of art history from the great Roman period to the beautiful artistic spendours of the 18th century onwards here the love of beautiful art and maybe over the top architecture was eloborated at its very best seen at the Royal Palace and Capua that was in ancient roman times the home to the school of Gladiators and visit the Amphitheatre Campano. From the port of Naples also Salerno port meeting at 0800am First visit is the will be to the Royal Palace of Caserta and you will taken back by its magnitude and grandeur the period in time that the kings would over build show their greatness and use the best Architects of that time. The Royal Palace was devolped under the rule of King Charles Of Bourbon in 1750 to symbolize his reign of Naples and he hired the famous architect Carlo Vanvitellis that did not manage to complete all the opera but his school of Vanvitellis Architecture completed the construction. The Royal Palace itself has many rooms and a large picture gallery of Decorative Arts .Also is home to some of the most beautiful landscaped gardens Fountains and Natural Oasis. Next stop is the The city of Capuaspartacus tour visiting the city of Capua now known as Santa Maria capua vettere. This town is home to the second largest Amphitheatre after the Coloseum. The Amphitheatre campano was home to the school of gladiators built during the Augustus period . Also was home to the revolt of the slave Spartacus in 73BC with the other gladiator slaves Gauls Crixus, Oenomaus and Ginnus where the leaders of the third Seville war against the Roman Empire which lasted 2 years. We have history surrounding the uprising and accounts regarding Spartacus who was an expert Thracian gladiator and also an expert warrior and leader but more about him is left to the legendary accounts.