ROYAL PALACE, ROYAL ARMOURY AND CHAPEL OF THE HOLY SHROUD
Discover the State Apartments of the Royal Palace and its collections: furnishings, paintings, tapestries, sculptures and precious decorated vaults. The visit includes the Royal Armoury, among the richest and most spectacular in the world, and ends in the Chapel of the Holy Shroud, a seventeenth-century masterpiece by the architect Guarino Guarini.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL VISIT
A journey through the different sections of the Archaelogical Museum, which over the centuries has become one of the richest in Europe. It includes the Archaeological Gallery, wing of the museum where the most precious works of the collections are preserved, the section dedicated to archaeology in Turin, with finds that date until the late antique era, and the Roman Theatre of Augusta Taurinorum, built between the first and second century AD.
PAINTING MASTERPIECES
With your nose up through the various sections of the Musei Reali, you can admire the wooden ceilings of the Royal Palace with the seventeenth-century paintings of the Flemish Jan Miel, the vault of the Daniel Gallery and that of the Royal Armoury, decorated with the Stories of Aeneas painted by Claudio Francesco Beaumont. The tour continues in the Savoy Gallery with court portraits by Van Dyck, The Elements by Albani, the Annunciation by Orazio Gentileschi, three monumental paintings by Veronese, Guido Reni’s works, the Venus by Sandro Botticelli, Scenes from the Passion of Christ by Hans Memling, and other paintings by Beato Angelico, Van Eyck and Rembrandt.
COMPLETE VISIT
Departure from the Royal Palace, with the state apartments of the first noble floor, the Armoury and the Chapel of the Holy Shroud. From here we proceed through the first floor of the Savoy Gallery, which exhibits over 500 works from the dynastic collections, that give testimony to the European art from the fourteenth to the twentieth century. We continue in the Archaelogical Museum, with the Archaeological Gallery, on the ground floor, the section dedicated to archaeology in Turin, in the basement, and the Roman Theatre. The complete visit ends in the Gardens, a place freely accessible to the public.
VISIT TO THE GARDENS
The Royal Gardens cover an area of over seven hectares and are freely accessible. The route includes the sixteenth-century Ducal Garden, which is the oldest nucleus, the Grove and the Lower Gardens, included in the nineteenth century, the East Garden, with the eighteenth-century fountain by Simone Martinez, and the Gardens of the Cavallerizza, made in the Baroque era. Numerous arboreal and floral species enrich the route: a pendulum beech and centenary plane trees, a large Ginkgo Biloba and the Barpej roses, created specifically for the Royal Gardens.
ROYAL PALACE FOR THE LITTLE ONES
The visit to the Royal Palace with children starts from the Staircase of Honour, from which you can access the great Swiss Guard Hall. Crossing the state antechambers we stop in front of the throne of the king, to enter shortly after the spectacular Royal Armoury, set up with ancient weapons and armours, horses and plumes, helmets and swords. The route continues in the Daniel Gallery, entirely frescoed and covered with Mirrors, in the spectacular Dining Room and in the Ballroom, rich in crystals and gilding. It ends in the Chapel of the Holy Shroud, which amazes in size and brightness. Along the way there are QR codes to listen to the audio tracks conceived for young visitors, for a captivating and fun visiting experience!
SAVOY GALLERY FOR THE LITTLE ONES
Crossing the halls of the Savoy Gallery, children will discover many painting masterpieces of the past, meeting characters and stories depicted with a variety of different materials, techniques and styles. In addition to the sacred images, which have as protagonists Mary, Jesus, the saints and angels, the paintings represent ancient myths, scenes of daily life and portraits of people who actually existed, as well as still lifes and landscapes. The visit can be enriched by reading the in-depth information dedicated to the little ones, or by listening to the voices of the characters from the Kids Audioguide, or even playing with the app that leads to the peaceful conquest of the rooms on the first floor.
THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY AT THE ROYAL PALACE AND IN THE SAVOY GALLERY
It includes the state apartments of the noble floor of the Royal Palace, where numerous ceilings retain the original baroque decoration, among these we cite the Victories of the Chamber of the Pages, The Triumph of Peace by Jan Miel in the Throne Room, the Enigmas that decorate the frieze of the Private Audience Room and The Sleep of Hannibal that stands in the center of the monumental wooden roof of the Council Room’s ceiling. The route is enriched by the vault frescoed at the end of the seventeenth century by Daniel Seiter in the homonymous gallery and then continues in the magnificent Alcove Room, built and decorated in the sixties on the occasion of the wedding of Duke Charles Emmanuel II to Françoise d’Orléans. At the end of the route that winds in the Royal Palace, you access the Chapel of the Holy Shroud, universally recognized as the apex of Baroque architecture, built since 1668 and designed by the mathematician Guarino Guarini, brilliant mind and Theatine father at the service of the Dukes of Savoy. Proceeding in the Savoy Gallery, the seventeenth century is well represented by the works of the Caravaggesque painters, among which we recall a refined Annunciation by Orazio Gentileschi and the Theorbo Player by Antiveduto Gramatica.
SCULPTURE
At the base of the Staircase of Honour of the Royal Palace is the equestrian monument to Vittorio Amedeo I, the oldest of Turin. Along the facade rooms of the noble floor are the fireplaces carved in the nineteenth century by the master Giuseppe Gaggini, while at the four corners of the Royal Armoury are arranged the allegorical sculptures by the Collino Brothers. In the Medallion Room there are four large marble reliefs carved in the eighteenth century by Simone Martinez, author also of the East Garden’s fountain, surrounded by sculptures from different eras and from other residences. The route also winds through the halls of the Archaelogical Museum, where sculptures and reliefs from the Assyrian, Phoenician, Greek, Etruscan and Roman eras are exhibited.
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