A look inside

We made our way inside and it’s nearly impossible to capture the opulence in photos. Everything was massive but yet so detailed.

This is the area where carriages would enter and the actual noble guests would disembark to ascend the stairs.

At the top of the stairs is the largest alfresco painting in Europe. It’s 7000 sq feet and took 14 months to paint. Our guide went into great detail about the meaning of the paining but it’s way too much to type plus I don’t even think I could do it justice. He apparently studied this painting every night. My noble guests, I believe him.

The scene depicts the four continents that were discovered at that time, Europe, America. Africa and Asia. It also includes many of the Greek gods as well as zodiac symbols. It was impressive…that’s my synopsis.

This room was for the guards to stand in. The ceiling and walls were decorated with plaster representing the branches of the military. It only took 9 months for the artist to do the plaster work in here.

Even the curtains in the ceiling are plaster.

Next we headed into the ballroom.

From here we headed through multiple guest rooms all of which had been restored and were all quite different. It was a little bit of a mind game walking from one to the other.