The monastery complex of St. Augustine is located 200 meters east of the Royal Palace in Caserta Reggia di Caserta in Largo San Sebastiano. Earlier this building belonged to the monastery, and today it is a museum.

For the first time the Order of the Augustinians appeared in the Kingdom of Naples in the 13th century - he immediately received the support of King Charles II of Anjou, who even gave the monks the privilege of grain trade .  In 1441, the year of Caserta was built the first building of the monastery avgustiniantsev to which later were added to additional rooms for the monks and a patio with colonnade .  However, in 1652, the year on the orders of Pope S. Agostino Monastery was closed, and the monks were dispersed .  The then governor of Caserta Count Acquaviva gave the building the religious complex Dominican Order, who founded the monastery music school for girls from poor families .  In the 18th century, with the support of King Charles III of Sant'Agostino experiencing a heyday: on the site of the old church of the 15th century was built a new, a project that is likely to work the court architect Luigi Vanvitelli, and in 1767, the year it was expanded and re- It decorated the building of the monastery .  The current neo-classical facade of the church was completed in the mid-19th century .  Inside it has a single nave with a barrel vault .  On the side walls are niches with altars and paintings of the 18th century Neapolitan school artists .  On the left wall, a fragment of the frescoes of the 16th century with the image of Mary Magdalene .  The main altar of the church was made in the 19th century .  I must say that today the church dedicated to St. Sebastian, the patron saint of Caserta .  And in the building after the restoration of the monastery was opened cultural center, which consists of the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of the holidays and traditions of the library and drawing classes .