The Villa Reale of Marlia was the residence of Napoleon Bonaparte’s sister, Princess Elisa, and of the first king of Italy, Vittorio Emanuele II of Savoy. It extends over an area of 18,000 square metres and is now privately owned.\In the park of 19 hectares are still preserved the seventeenth-century gardens including the magnificent Teatro di Verzura.\In its spectacular seventeenth-century Teatro di Verzura, the great violinist Paganini played on summer nights for Princess Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi, Napoleon’s sister.
