The Royal Palace of Naples opens new spaces and an exhibition on Caravaggio's Flagellation in March

In 2022, the Royal Palace of Naples recorded more than 340,000 visitors-an increase of more than 25 percent compared to 2019, a year that before the Covid health emergency had recorded an extraordinary number of admissions, coinciding with a spike in attendance in the city compared to the previous period. And many more were visitors to the Romantic Garden, which can be accessed free of charge every day of the week.

“It has been a golden year for the Royal Palace and for tourism in the city, a result that requires us to further improve the offer and services for tourists and citizens,” said director Mario Epifani, and announced, "In 2023 we will offer new spaces to our visitors such as theAndrone delle Carrozze, which we will inaugurate in the coming days with a photographic exhibition on war damage to the Palace and which can be visited free of charge every day of the week. Also scheduled for March is an exhibition, in collaboration with the Capodimonte Museum, focusing on Caravaggio’s Flagellation. Next, a permanent museum dedicated to Enrico Caruso on the 150th anniversary of his birth will be inaugurated in the renovated Sala Dorica."

Palazzo Reale will thus see a gradual expansion of the spaces open to the public, associating these new openings with focuses on the history of the palace and its collections. The exhibition Don Quixote between Naples, Caserta and the Quirinale: the cartoons and tapestries, which closed this week, was one of the factors in the increase in visitors, as was, over the Christmas period, the new display of the Neapolitan nativity scene from the Intesa Sanpaolo collections. Guided tours of the Hanging Garden, the storerooms, and the restoration workshops, located in the former kitchens, garnered great interest and participation, as did the new display of Carolina Bonaparte’s mirror à la psyché and Maria Carolina’s newly restored rotating lectern.

“Over the course of 2022, 5 million euros were spent on works and restorations that made the Palace more efficient and welcoming,” said architect Almerinda Padricelli, works manager of the Strategic Plan “Great Cultural Heritage Projects.” "In addition to the extraordinary intervention of dusting the furniture and decorated surfaces of the Historical Apartment, we have completed 80 percent of the extraordinary maintenance of the roofs and attics, the replacement of the lighting fixtures in the historical apartment, with a consequent reduction in consumption of more than 20 thousand euros per year, as well as the implementation of the new video surveillance system and the modernization of the fire and intrusion detection systems. Many construction sites are still open, and we face the coming year with a series of projects for the restoration of the artistic heritage and rehabilitation of the monumental heritage that will further improve the safety, decorum and the very image of the Royal Palace."

Photo: Entrance and staircase of the Royal Palace of Naples

The Royal Palace of Naples opens new spaces and an exhibition on Caravaggio's Flagellation in March

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