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The “Royal Venaria” of Amedeo di Castellamonte. In 1659 the grandiose project of the Duke Carlo Emanuele II came true by building a fixed abode for hunting (lett. Venatorial) in order to celebrate through the rituals of hunting the magnificence of the Duke. So he built this Palace as a design of the “delitie” of the 17th century and as a crown of Turin the capital. The work of Castellamonte, which began in 1659 and was ended in 1675, was an “unicum” and consisted of a Village, Royal [Read more...]
The “Royal Venaria” of Amedeo di Castellamonte. In 1659 the grandiose project of the Duke Carlo Emanuele II came true by building a fixed abode for hunting (lett. Venatorial) in order to celebrate through the rituals of hunting the magnificence of the Duke. So he built this Palace as a design of the “delitie” of the 17th century and as a crown of Turin the capital. The work of Castellamonte, which began in 1659 and was ended in 1675, was an “unicum” and consisted of a Village, Royal Palace and Gardens and extended for an axis of 2 Km. The Village had in the center a quadrioval square which reproduced the “Collar of the order of Annunziata”. The Royal Palace included two courts and had in the center the “Diana Room”. Towards south west we can find the stables, kennels, orangerie, the “upper park of the deers” and, in front of the Village the Chapel of S.Rocco.
The new project for the Royal Palace of Michelangelo Garove. The distruction of the palace in some parts caused by the French troops of Catinat in 1693 was the reason to begin a new project of restoration (1699-1713). Michelangelo Garove expressed in his project the new reference of the Court of Vittorio Amedeo II: Versailles. But only the south-west part of the Garove’s project was realized while the north part wasn’t built because of the untimely death of Garove in 1713.
The “big dimension” of Filippo Juvarra. In 1716 the building site was assigned to Filippo Juvarra. He worked on some principal elements of the building: the arrangement of the hunting services at south east, the building of the Royal Chapel, and the formal recomposing of a single court in front of the Village. In order to define this huge space, Juvarra raised the gallery by opening towards the outside with scansion of large windows. Juvarra’s works continued between 1717 and 1722, with the accomplishment of the Chapel dedicated to S.Uberto, a building of smoothed greek cross and diagonally circular chapels (a similar building to Superga but richer and more well-constructed than it). The building called “Big Stable” o “Orangerie”, but really including both functions was built by Filippo Juvarra between 1721 and 1727 and it is situated at the extreme south east of the complex.
The stables and the completing work of Benedetto Alfieri. Benedetto Alfieri was charged, after the death of Juvarra, to continue the work at the Royal Palace. In 1751 the construction of the “L” building, the church and the Garove’s pavillon towards the Village, the new “Belvedere”, and the large stairs to the church tribuns was started.Between 1754 and 1755 the little Alfieri’s gallery was built which connected the church to the Orangerie. In 1757 the buildings behind S.Uberto were built and they had the function of a coach house.
(this text was taken from www.reggiavenariareale.it)
