In the Old Apartment we find an elliptic room, painted in white and without decorations, with footstools for the musicians, because the hall was destined for the amusement of the count. Today it hosts the Nativity scene, recently restored, after the major number of pastoral statues were stolen. The tradition of the Neapolitan nativity scene became popular during the Bourbon period of Charles, but mainly by the collector Francesco I. The custom of staging a nativity scene for Christmas was popularised at the Caserta Royal Palace as a collective activity of the court: not only did artists and artisans participate, but also the ladies in waiting and the princesses, skilful in making clothes for the pastoral statues, rich noble women or oriental dressed Georgian merchants, with multicoloured silk and jewellery of filigree and coral. Many artists participated in the production of the nativity scene such as Bottiglieri, Sanmartino, Mosca, Celebrano, Vassallo, Gori, they modelled the more important figures into clay while other statues had the head and limbs in clay and the body in wire and oakum. The statues were placed on a bed of cork, according to strong rules respecting canon scenes, like the Nativity, the Announcement to the shepherds and the Inn. In order to implement the Nativity scene, every year a project was carried out as described in the paintings by Salvatore Fregola on the walls of the hall; these paintings portray the last nativity scene to be stayed by the sovereigns, before the fatal events that brought about the Bourbon downfall, wanted by Ferdinand II by preparing the "Racket Hall" and by having all its walls painted "like the sky". The current presentation is inspired by the last nineteenth century nativity scene, that represents better the cosmopolitan eighteenth-century Naples.