It’s the hill that gives the widest and most beautiful view over the Campania Felix. Even without reaching the top.

A superb holm oak wood of 76 hectares remained miraculously intact, just like the Bourbons sovereigns and the court enjoyed it, when they frequented it on occasions of periodic hunting trips. Just outside the Royal Palace, on the hills of Montemaiuolo and Montebriano, from where the great waterfall feeding the park’s waterway descends.

The plain of Capua was well known for its fertility. The land was full of agricultural production. The viceroy Michele Reggio and Branciforte knew it well. In fact, he suggested to Charles of Bourbon to buy some lands there.