Back, shows that even the appearance of a fifteenth-century castle.
Supporters of stone on brick passes out of the excavated Roman stratum.
At the beginning of the century I a. C. The location of poster this building was occupied by a Roman gate in the walls of the departed that Augusta Taurinorum decumanus maximus (the former name of Turin). he can show you all over the museum
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likes to spend time with his wife and kids Two of the towers, though, restored the original kernel even testify. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the door was used as a fortified stronghold in the city's defenses.
Later the building became in possession of the Savoy-Achaia, a secondary branch of the House of Savoy at the beginning of the fourteenth century, it expanded to one of the castle. A century later, Ludovico rebuild of Achaia in the quadrilateral, sculpture with a courtyard and a portico and four cylindrical towers, one at each corner. The shape of this building is clearly recognized even at the rear of the palace. After the extinction of Achaia, the building became the residence for guests of Savoy.
In 1637 the portrait regent of Duke Carlo Emanuele II, Cristina of France, chose it as personal residence. Taking that cover the patio and an interior renovation of apartments. Sixty years later, another regent, Maria Juana Bautista of Savoy-Nemours, lived in the palace, and she got the nickname final Madama (Italian word for Madame). She asked the architect Philip Juvara to design a new baroque palace in white stone, but work stopped in 1721 after which only the front end.
Juvara facade of Palazzo Madama in Turin.
The imposing staircase designed by Philip Juvara
A monument to challenge the Sardinian troops, erected by the exiles during the Milanese Milan's triumphant visit to the Austrian Emperor Francis Jose, January 15, 1857, stands at the Palazzo Madama.
Photo of the giclee year 1865, which is visible on the roof of the palazio, the small observatory for Savoy
Later there were several applications to the palace, and houses the headquarters of the French government during the Napoleonic Wars.
The restoration of the Savoy in Turin and Piedmont, gave new life to the palace: it was the seat of the Military Command, and later became an astronomical observatory in the year 1822, and during much of the paintings century could be seen on the roof of the building , a curious cupulilla for scientific observations: he was subsequently transferred to the hill.
Carlos Alberto reconsider the building, making it the headquarters of Pinacoteca prints Regia, illustration the royal art gallery, portraits and then Subalpino Senate (Parliament of the Kingdom of Sardinia), then the Court of Cassation, the Senate was inaugurated on May 8, 1848 while the king posters was at war oil painting against Austria, the last session was held on December 9, 1864. The location of the senate, yet integrated until 1927, was later gallery demolished in domestic works in the building.
Towards the end of the nineteenth century started the interest for the history of the palace, digging the foundations of the building and found the remains of buildings and architecture of previous versions.
The section built by Juvara gives the Piazza Castello, and is now a front escenogra of one drawings deep hole to hide the rear of the building, which remained unchanged. Juvara expressed in this foreign country that intended to be a magnificent architectural preamble to a building that was never built, a floor with high ceilings and windows of low arches, which is attached to a mezzanine on the order of a colossal order of pilasters compound. Each pilaster stresses on a plant mamposteris rustica on the ground floor landscapes of the palace. The three core holes are highlighted by a more marked relief offered by the columns attached to the facade, which is the interior space to allow a central interior of glass, glassy as a lodge. Its prominence is emphasized painter by the high pedestal on which are erected, with trophies of arms carved in relief. In all three holes at the sides, each center is slightly broken forward, giving your window a shaded relief and deeper into the depth of the wall, its two massive columns outside the main canvas overlap order to continue as if watercolor behind them . On both sides, the holes of painters the windows are abstract placed together in a panel retranqueado slightly, so that there are three planes on the facade. A railing decorated with vases and statues in white marble tops the facade.
The castle has seen during the twentieth century, developed numerous restorations and renovations, which were finalized in late 2006, returning to the city an important document for the two thousand years of painting history.
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