Quick facts for kids Palazzo Carignano |
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| General information |
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| Architectural style |
Baroque |
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| Town or city |
Turin |
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| Country |
Italy |
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| Construction started |
1679 |
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| Client |
Emmanuel Philibert, Prince of Carignano |
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| Technical details |
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| Structural system |
Brick |
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| Design and construction |
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| Architect |
Guarino Guarini |
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| UNESCO World Heritage site |
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| Criteria |
(i) (ii) (iv) (v) |
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| Reference |
823bis |
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| Inscription |
1997 (21st Session) |
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Palazzo Carignano is a historical building in the centre of Turin, Italy, which houses the Museum of the Risorgimento. It was a private residence of the Princes of Carignano, after whom it is named. Its rounded façade is different from other façades of the same structure. It is located on the Via Accademia delle Scienze.
History
The 19th century rear façade of the Palazzo Carignano on Piazza Carlo Alberto.
The construction of the Palazzo Carignano was ordered by Prince Emmanuel Philibert, son of Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano and his French wife Marie de Bourbon. The Prince commissioned architect Guarino Guarini to design a suitable residence for his home and the cadet house of the reigning House of Savoy.
Guarini designed the structure in the shape of a square, with a straight and restrained east façade and an elliptical façade on the west. Guarini also added a forecourt at the center of the palace. Construction began in 1679, when the Prince was 51 years old.
The decorations over the windows of the piano nobile recall the campaign of the Carignano family with Carignan-Salières Regiment against the Iroquois in 1667. The interior has always been described as lavish and has splendid frescoes and stucco decorations.
Among the frescoes are some by Stefano Legnani, called il Legnanino. The main stairwell is decorated with busts by Pietro Somazzi.
The building, constructed in brick in a typical Baroque style, has an elliptical main façade. This façade represents the only example of civic architecture making use of the undulating 'concave – convex – concave' rhythm established by Francesco Borromini in the church of S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane in Rome.
The Palazzo was the birthplace of Marie Thérèse, Princesse de Lamballe in 1749 – confidant of Marie Antoinette and for whom she died in 1792. Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Carignano was born there in 1770. It was also the birthplace of the first King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel II in 1820.
From 1848 to 1861 the palace was used as the House of Deputies of the Subalpine Parliament. In 1861, with the creation of the parliament of the newly unified Kingdom of Italy, the room was not large enough to host the House of Deputies, which was moved elsewhere.
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| Archaeological sites |
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| Basilica and Cathedral |
- Turin Cathedral
- Basilica of Corpus Domini
- Basilica of Our Lady
- Basilica of Superga
- Santuario della Consolata
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| Churches |
- Chapel of the Holy Shroud
- San Lorenzo
- Gran Madre di Dio
- Madonna del Pilone
- Monte dei Cappuccini
- San Domenico
- San Filippo Neri
- San Dalmazzo
- Santa Teresa
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| Other |
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| Theatres |
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| Museums |
- Egyptian Museum
- Museum of Human Anatomy Luigi Rolando
- Museo Nazionale dell'Automobile
- Museum of the Risorgimento
- Oriental Art Museum
- National Museum of Cinema
- Sabauda Gallery
- Natural History Museum
- Ancient Art Museum
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| Gardens and parks |
- Parco del Valentino
- Botanical Garden
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| Events and traditions |
- Italian Environmental Film Festival
- Torino Film Festival
- Turin International Book Fair
- Terra Madre Salone del Gusto
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| Northwest |
- Crespi d'Adda
- Genoa
- Ivrea
- Mantua and Sabbioneta
- Monte San Giorgio1
- Porto Venere, Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto, Cinque Terre
- Corniglia
- Manarola
- Monterosso al Mare
- Riomaggiore
- Vernazza
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
- Castle of Moncalieri
- Castle of Racconigi
- Castle of Rivoli
- Castello del Valentino
- Royal Palace of Turin
- Palazzo Carignano
- Palazzo Madama, Turin
- Palace of Venaria
- Palazzina di caccia of Stupinigi
- Villa della Regina
- Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes1
- Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
- Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato
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| Northeast |
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| Central |
- Assisi
- Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi
- Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia
- Florence
- Hadrian's Villa
- Medici villas
- Piazza del Duomo, Pisa
- Pienza
- Rome2
- San Gimignano
- Siena
- Urbino
- Val d'Orcia
- Villa d'Este
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| South |
- Alberobello
- Amalfi Coast
- Castel del Monte, Apulia
- Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park, Paestum and Velia, Certosa di Padula
- Herculaneum
- Oplontis and Villa Poppaea
- Naples
- Palace of Caserta, Aqueduct of Vanvitelli and San Leucio Complex
- Pompeii
- Sassi di Matera
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| Islands |
- Aeolian Islands
- Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalù and Monreale
- Archaeological Area of Agrigento
- Barumini nuraghes
- Mount Etna
- Syracuse and Necropolis of Pantalica
- Val di Noto
- Caltagirone
- Catania
- Militello in Val di Catania
- Modica
- Noto
- Palazzolo Acreide
- Ragusa
- Scicli
- Villa Romana del Casale
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| Countrywide |
- Longobards in Italy, Places of Power (568–774 A.D.)
- Brescia
- Cividale del Friuli
- Castelseprio
- Spoleto
- Temple of Clitumnus located at Campello sul Clitunno
- Santa Sofia located at Benevento
- Sanctuary of Monte Sant'Angelo located at Monte Sant'Angelo
- Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps3
- Primeval Beech Forests of Europe4
- Venetian Works of Defence between 15th and 17th centuries5
- Bergamo
- Palmanova
- Peschiera del Garda
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- 1 Shared with Switzerland
- 2 Shared with the Holy See
- 3 Shared with Austria, France, Germany, Slovenia, and Switzerland
- 4 Shared with Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Ukraine
- 5 Shared with Croatia and Montenegro
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