Italy-Piedmont-Turin

Reggia di Venaria Reale, reconstruction of daily life. This Royal Palace of the seventeenth century, dedicated to the hunting goddess Diana, was planned in 1658 by Amedeo di Castellamonte for the duke Carlo Emanuele II. The so-called "Versaille" of Turin is a building of huge proportions (480.000 sq m). After the structural recovery the building now house a Museum regarding the life and culture of the court.

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Reggia di Venaria Reale, reconstruction of daily life. This Royal Palace of the seventeenth century, dedicated to the hunting goddess Diana, was planned in 1658 by Amedeo di Castellamonte for the duke Carlo Emanuele II. The so-called "Versaille" of Turin is a building of huge proportions (480.000 sq m). After the structural recovery the building now house a Museum regarding the life and culture of the court.