We visited in order to see the Caravaggio exhibition, which was excellent. The rooms of the palace are lavishly decorated, a lot like most European palaces, but probably worth a visit if you like that kind of thing. The gardens are free to enter.

Not much of like glamour & splendor from its outward appearance given the location of the Palace pretty much right at the "downtown core" of the city (unlike some palaces of Europe also visited which are on their own huge grounds and like on the outskirts of cities), I would just say that I was "pleasantly surprised" once inside this palace to get to go through its "quite resplendent" rooms (with paintings, tapestries, sculptures & also "gold glitters" on some ceilings) although yes I had been similarly surprised by the interiors of two prior palaces also in "downtown settings" namely the Royal Castle in Warsaw & the Residenz in Munich (but this one I would say somewhat on a "lesser scale" in general decorations than those two); and also "kind of unique" about this palace (not seen among the rooms of any other palace) is its "theater room" with a pretty good space & a nice-sized stage (although not quite a full-sized theater room with upper galleries & such). But yes, above all else seen at this palace, I was most impressed by its "grand staircase" with its impressive width branching out to two sides from like a sizeable landing in the middle and where there are also nice-sized statues mounted on the walls alongside (just inside the entrance to go up to the 2nd floor which is where to begin the palace tour). Located on one side of the city's "main square" Piazza del Plebiscito, directly across the square from this palace is the Basilica di San Francesco di Paola (with a nice exterior view of the front pillars & the dome of that church although with a "pretty empty" interior); and yes right around the square are these crowded "pedestrian streets" lined with many shops & outdoor vendors (and with likely one of those streets leading to the Castel Nuovo on the waterfront nearby but which I didn't have time for visit being a little late in the day).

This is not one of the great palaces of the world. In fact the king didn't iike it so much that he built a better one at Caserta. Having said that, the interior grand staircase is very impressive, and some of the rooms are beautifully overstuffed, and gives the illusion that the palace was used over a long period of time. This building is a nice diversion for about an hour.

Popped in here as had some time to kill before flight in the evening. Rooms and art were amazing to see, felt like there was more to view but couldn’t work it out. Not bad entry fee at €11 per adult either. Shame we could t walk out onto the roof garden that overlooked the bay, must have been closed as off season