While the north side of the park is all covered by the woods (and while walking there you will certainly forget to be inside a metropolis), the south side near the Royal Palace is much like gardens and from there you see the panorama of the city and the gulf of Naples. This place was at that time called "Sight of Naples" and it has been depicted by many landscape painters of the 18th and 19th century. In its middle there is the beautiful Fountain of Belvedere, with an ancient marble group that was situated before in the fountain of the Royal Orchard inside the Tower Garden.

Inside the park, beyond the Royal Palace, there are also other buildings: the Royal Factory of Porcelain, that had been active from 1743 to 1771 (when it was moved into the Royal Palace of Portici) and that nowadays house a school of ceramics; the Church of San Gennaro, intended to give religious aid to the numerous colony of workers who lived in the park; the Casina dei Pincipi (Princes' House), built in 1828 as an outbuilding for the king's children; the Casino della Regina (Queen's House) from 1840, initially built for the Queen mother but turned to house for court and private parties; the Hermitage of Capuchins from 1819, that nowadays hosts a primary school.