ROYAL PALACE, Throne Room
- Audio File length: 2.44
- Author: STEFANO ZUFFI E DAVIDE TORTORELLA
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Language: English / USA
The Royal Palace admits guests in groups, but make sure you haven't chosen a day where there will be state receptions or official ceremonies, because you'll risk not being let in!
Like I said, you enter from Armory Square. Once you go past the stately entrance hall with columns, and pass through a portico, you'll reach the grand staircase with its 70 steps, truly spectacular thanks to its marble lions and celebratory frescoes.
From the landing of the main floor, you'll immediately move on to the State Apartments with the Hall of Halberdiers, which is one of the palace's most sumptuous rooms thanks to the eighteenth-century tapestries on the walls, and above thanks to the magnificent ceiling fresco by Giambattista Tiepolo depicting the classic scene of Apotheosis of Aeneas; this painting is a luminous rococo triumph....