Palazzo della Gran Guardia
What makes it special
Palazzo della Gran Guardia, on Piazzale Caboto in Gaeta, is a historic building whose origins are closely tied to the Bourbon dynasty. In 1786 Ferdinand IV, King of Naples and third son of King Charles of Bourbon and Maria Amalia of Saxony, ordered the completion of the building his father had commissioned. Its importance is also recorded in the city’s historical memoirs written by Onorato Gaetani, Count of Castelmola. The palace is currently undergoing a careful restoration that is now nearing completion: the final work on the interiors has recently been finished and the new windows and doors have just been installed. Even so, the building is not yet open to the public.
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Palazzo della Gran Guardia, Piazza Generale Vincenzo Traniello, Gaeta LT, Italia
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