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Castello di Racconigi
The interior of the castle – one of the best preserved of the Residenze Sabaude (Savoy homes), due to having been lived in for four centuries – brings together the two sides in the life of a ruler: the official side made up of balls, parties, and receptions and the more familial, private side.
Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi
The home, designed by Filippo Juvarra, has an original four-armed floor plan, laid out as a Saint Andrew cross, that comes together in a magnificent elliptical reception hall. In its splendid frescoed rooms, it houses the Museo dell’Arte e dell”Ammobiliamento (Museum of Art and Furnishings).
Palazzo Madama (Torino)
Set in the middle of Piazza Castello, this home holds the millennium-old history of Torino because it includes, in a single structure, the towers from the Roman Porta Pretoria, the 15th century Castle by Ludovico d’Acaja, and the striking façade added in 1721 by Filippo Juvarra.
Castello di Rivoli
The Juvarrian castle, restored and transformed into one of the most important European exhibit spaces for contemporary art, boasts a permanent collection that documents the contemporary art in Italy at the beginning of the 1950’s.
Reggia di Venaria
The Reggia (Palace) was designed by Amedeo di Castellamonte in 1658 and dedicated to Diana, the goddess of hunting. Important additions by Filippo Juvarra (the Galleria di Diana, the stables, the chapel of Sant’Uberto) have contributed to the palace’s appellation as the “Versailles” of Torino.
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Places
Villa Taranto Botanical Gardens
Villa Taranto and its gardens, which look out over Lago Maggiore, have a vast botanical trove that includes about 1,000 plants, which until today had never been cultivated in Italy, and about 20,000 varieties and species of particular botanical importance.
Palaisozaki
It is the new Torino Olympic Palasport (Sports Arena) designed by the Japanese architect Arata Isozaki for the Winter Olympics in Torino 2006. A multi-functional space, versatile and flexible which, thanks to the mobility of its platform, can turn from an ice rink into a concert, show, or convention venue.
Forte di Vinadio
Requested by Re Carlo Alberto, the Forte (Fort) di Vinadio represents one of the most important examples of military architecture from the Alps. It extends length-wise for 1,200 meters, on three levels, which cover about 10 km of interior passageway.
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People
Alain Elkann
“Torino remains a beautiful city, but not only that, it is also a serious city in which one can work well. One feels protected…Then, in those hills on certain winter days when the sky is blue and the air is clean, it’s like being in Kathmandu”.
Andrea Lee
“I married a man from Torino and we have started our family here. You fall in love with it gradually, it’s full of hidden, unknown things ready to be discovered, but filled with perversions as well. It has some very beautiful places…..”
Gianni Farinetti
"I was born in Bra, in the Langhe. I have a true affinity for the countryside. Piemonte is a land rich in moods and history, literary history as well: Arpino, Levi, Ginzburg, and the best loved of all, Beppe Fenoglio – but also many recent writers. In fact, no other Italian city has produced so many beginnings in the last several years as Torino."
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