A palace fit for a Queen
Did you spot the clue? The diminutive figure at the foot of the stairs. This is the magnificent Caserta Palace, home to Queen Amidala in the Star Wars movie, The Phantom Menace. Just one of many things we did to keep a small boy entertained on holiday. A train ride from Naples, we were equally enthralled by the cascata, a series of cascades, rippling down through the awe-inspiring gardens fronting the palace.
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restlessjo 
What an incredible structure Jo – I love the perspective you chose for your shot. Fit for a queen indeed!
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Did you ever watch the Star Wars movies? They were compulsive viewing… In a galaxy far far away 🤣💕
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I did see the first two but none after that. The first was SO long ago it’s hard to believe!
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How many times up and down Jo 🙂
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Good kwestion, Brian 🙂 🙂
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Couldn’t do many now-a-days 😀
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You keeping ok still? 🙂 🙂
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Rather tip top thanks Jo. ❤
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wow, impressive.
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It’s a fabulous building, and the gardens are impressive too 🙂 🙂
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Wowsa, Jo! Glad to read that you can get back to England now even if you don’t go right away. I’m hoping for a trip to France this fall.
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Thanks, Janet 🙂 🙂
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Now THAT is a staircase! And the rest is not too dusty either!
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A small statement, Mel 🙂 🙂
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Nothing is Over-the-Top in Italy. It is always ‘just right’.
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That’s a very grand staircase! The Star Wars reference is way over my head. I watched the original when it came out and wasn’t inspired to keep going. Just another of my oddities!
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Not odd at all, Anabel. Each to her own. But the Caserta Palace was a star in it’s own right 🙂 🙂
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Wow… GrEandeur! Great image, Jo!
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Thanks, Amy 🙂 🙂
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What a grand building. I’m not a Star Wars fan so never got into the details, but I can see how your boy would be excited to be there.
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The gardens were our main interest, Graham (though I do like Star Wars myself 🙂 )
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How fun for him! Beautifully captured perspective Jo. Wishing you a great weekend.
Did I read correctly that UK is allowing travel to and from Portugal?
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Thanks, Sue 🙂 🙂 Yes, we have the green light, subject to vaccines and Covid tests.
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That’s fabulous news Jo! So glad for you.
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A beautiful building. Reading the comments and seeing the steps has reminded me of how the daleks used to be thwarted if you could get to stairs, because they couldn’t levitate back then or I think not. If they could, I had forgotten by the time it came to seeing the Christopher Eccleston version. I remember my feeling of horror when the goodies came to some stairs and the daleks started floating.
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Eek! I never saw that version. I was never a huge Doctor Who fan and the daleks got on my nerves, but my daughter has remained a fan of the series to this day 🤔💕
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Wow, that’s a wonderfully grand staircase!
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The whole building is impressive, Sarah, and the gardens, fabulous 🤗💕
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My grandsons are into Star Wars at the moment – Lorenzo had Darth Vader on his birthday cake a fortnight ago and Luca has a Stormtrooper on his today. All little boys are enchanted by the series. I just wish I had kept all MY boys Star Wars toys. We had a magnificent Millennium Falcon.
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So did we 😊💕
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that must have thrilled your son, Jo! magnificent and grand!
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He was desperate to find a Stormtrooper to attack, LolaWi 🤣💕
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Wow! Those stairs are incredible!
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The palace is as grand as anywhere I’ve ever been, Jill 🤗💕
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Wow …. what a grand staircase. Just read a source that stated this place is the largest in the world by volume. Wow! Guess I better get to Naples. 🙂
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It was a hot day, Frank, and we walked down the side of that cascata desperate to jump in. But good manners prevailed 🤣💕 A totally magnificent place!
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Magnificent. I want to visit this place.❤
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I saw this on the TV series “World’s Greatest Palaces”. It looked incredible.
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It was, Karen! Our priorities were a little different back then but it was the most magnificent place 🤗💕
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I hope I someday get a chance to see the palace. Heck, I hope I someday get a chance to leave Australia!
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🤣💕
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The film is a closed book to me, but I’d definitely pay a visit here anyway.
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It’s as near as I got to tales of derring do, Margaret 🙂 🙂 The grounds were fabulous so it was worth the ride out.
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Glorious building and your son must have been awestruck to be there! A treat for you all! Great news about the green for Portugal and hope you can see your family soon. Xx
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He was hoping to see R2 or 3P0, Annika. So was I 🤣💕 Thanks, yes! Have a good weekend!
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That would have been the highlight of the trip! 😀 I did get to interview a Dalek once … not that there was much substance to the conversation!
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Exterminate! Exterminate! 🤣💕
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I haven’t seen that movie but this is a beautiful building.
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We’ve seen every one of them, Carol. With one or other of our offspring, or on our own. 1998 it was filmed. Amazing, isn’t it? 🙂 🙂
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