Venaria seen from The Palace Sculpture Garden Fluide of peonies. After eight years of restoration and structural, last October, has reopened to the public Venaria , the residence "of pleasure and hunting" built by Savoy during the second half of the seventeenth century, a few miles from Turin.
The royal palaces, real jewels of the Baroque International, is set in a beautiful foothills of the Alps, dominated by the first outlines of the mountains and the intense green of the forests on which extends the architectural complex.
The grandeur of the palace and its gardens (480mila cubic meters of construction, 80 thousand square meters of floor space), combined with the artistic quality of the work of furniture and decoration both indoors and outdoors, is holding Savoy one of Europe's most beautiful suburban complex of its kind, as to be a model for some solutions then adopted in the residence of French kings at Versailles .
The Great Gallery called Gallery of Diana
The Great Gallery called Gallery of Diana Inside, outside and go on to recent renovation of buildings and formal gardens , collections of tapestries, paintings, sculptures and trimmings to tell visitors today customs and amusements of the groups of courtiers and their staff who moved to the country with the Savoy . Besides that, the Palace also offers a real 'mise en scène' of seventeenth-century slice of life, whose construction was entrusted the versatile British director and artist Peter Greenway .
The garden at 'Italian
In the basement of the house of Savoy, Greenway has organized the rebuilding of the kitchens of the palace: dozens of extras, sound, projections, lighting effects, aromas of foods and drinks of all kinds (fruit from the game, all cooked by gourmet recruited representation) show the magnificence of the meals and the functioning of which was to sit at table, about 500 meals a day, with the label that governed it. In areas
employers is the turn of the most private aspects of courtly life, the rituals of awakening and dressing (an actor interprets Carlo Emanuele II of Savoy, the commissioner of Venaria) in the rooms of the dukes "Dangerous Liaisons" extramarital affairs, but also the gossip and the little secrets of the court. Then large banquets, jugglers and dances from the past, and rich procession of horsemen, hunters and packs of dogs with harnesses in seventeenth-century style.
Stefano Vannucci
A good initiative for visitors to the most romantic Venaria: " love with the Palace ..."
The garden at 'Italian In the basement of the house of Savoy, Greenway has organized the rebuilding of the kitchens of the palace: dozens of extras, sound, projections, lighting effects, aromas of foods and drinks of all kinds (fruit from the game, all cooked by gourmet recruited representation) show the magnificence of the meals and the functioning of which was to sit at table, about 500 meals a day, with the label that governed it. In areas
employers is the turn of the most private aspects of courtly life, the rituals of awakening and dressing (an actor interprets Carlo Emanuele II of Savoy, the commissioner of Venaria) in the rooms of the dukes "Dangerous Liaisons" extramarital affairs, but also the gossip and the little secrets of the court. Then large banquets, jugglers and dances from the past, and rich procession of horsemen, hunters and packs of dogs with harnesses in seventeenth-century style.
Stefano Vannucci
A good initiative for visitors to the most romantic Venaria: " love with the Palace ..."
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