Casina Vanvitelliana

House Museum Naples, Italy

The Casina Vanvitelliana is a suggestive hunting lodge located on a small island of Lake Fusaro, in the municipality of Bacoli. The atmosphere is fabulous to the point of having the building renamed "Casina di Pinocchio", because it recalls the house of the Blue Fairy in the famous 1972 drama directed by Luigi Comencini.

It was built on a preexisting islet that formerly housed an old building used as a storage room for fishing equipment. The Casina, or “cottage” is connected to the mainland by a wooden pier. A small garden stands across the bridge with various flower beds and a rich vegetation. The work of building the royal lodge was entrusted to (and named after) the architect of the Royal Caserta Palace, Luigi Vanvitelli, and later his son, Carlo Vanvitelli. The house was also used to host 18th-century luminaries such as Mozart, Rossini, and various kings, emperors and tsars. More recently it has been used as a movie set and the picturesque site of many weddings.