The two statues of the grooms guarding the gardens of the Royal Palace in Naples are a pledge of faithful and perpetual friendship between Naples and St. Petersburg.
The two sculptures, known as "the bronze horses", bear the signature of Peter Clodt (Pyotr Klodt) Von Jurgensburg.The two statues are a gift of thanks from Nicholas I Romanov Emperor of Russia for the welcome he received in Palermo.
Between 1845 and 1846, the Tsar of all the Russias was hosted in Sicily to allow the ailing Tsarina, Alexandra Fëdorovna, to escape the harsh winter of St. Petersburg.
On the marble bases of the "Bronze Horses" is still carved in Latin the testimony of friendship and esteem between the two sovereigns.
