Caserta Palace
The interior of Caserta Palace in Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace
- "When we started to scout for locations we looked in various countries and cities, but Caserta was one of the most beautiful places on the planet and once we saw this, there was no question we wanted to shoot here."
- ―George Lucas
The Caserta Palace (Italian: Reggia di Caserta), located at is a palace in Caserta, a town situated north-east of Naples. Its Palazzo Reale is the largest royal palace in Italy (and, by volume, in the world), designed by Luigi Vanvitelli and built for the Bourbon King Charles III in the 1750s. It boasts over a thousand rooms and the surrounding park is full of fountains and statuary. There is also an English Garden.
The interior was used in filming the scenes in the Theed Royal Palace for Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace and again in Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones.
Sources[]
- Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace Scrapbook
- Star Wars: Episode I Insider's Guide
- Star Wars: Attack of the Clones Scrapbook
- Star Wars in 100 Scenes
Galactic Backpacking, Part 2: Visiting Real-World Naboo on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
Notes and references[]
External links[]
- The Star Wars Traveler by Gus Lopez and Pamela Gren
- Loms Galactic Tours by Loms
- Caserta Palace on Wikipedia
