Carditello Royal Site's Galoppatoio reopens after renovations

Restoration work involving the parterre of the Royal Site of Carditello was completed in December. Therefore, the Galoppatoio reopens, ready to host the major events promoted by the Foundation, such as the Carditello Festival in July, and the Volare sull’arte hot air balloon flights, which will allow during weekends to discover theBourbon Palace from a new perspective.

“We are working hard,” says Maurizio Maddaloni, president of the Fondazione Real Sito di Carditello, “to completely re-functionalize the site. By the beginning of March, we will also open the rooms of the royal palace, after a long restoration work site, enriched today by supports derived from new technologies and the Carditello Digitale project, through the activation of an immersive room in which digital content will be usable. A platform that will allow us to divulge our history with new languages, integrating the cultural offerings of the Royal Site and creating educational workshops for schools and families.”

In particular, several interventions have already been carried out in the Galoppatoio: the ancient Bourbon moat has been restored, resuming the original path of meteoric waters; the steps that once housed the audience of popular equestrian events have been restored; the columns of the gates have been refurbished, eliminating the wounds of time; and the external drinking trough, used by wayfarers who used to stop in the Royal Delight, has been rebuilt from scratch. The second restoration work on the Monumental Fountains with obelisks, once fed by the Carolino Aqueduct, has also been carried out, allowing the bleaching of the artistic decorations and the complete re-functionalization, after the first recovery carried out thanks to the Fai census “Places of the Heart.”

It is also planned, in the coming weeks, to close the construction site of the Tempietto alone, which has been slowed down due to the integration of the missing steps, originally made with ancient Bellona stone, now no longer available. Proposed to replace the original steps are some samples from the most important Italian and foreign quarries.

Carditello Royal Site's Galoppatoio reopens after renovations

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