The Venaria Palace

One of Italy's Top Five Tourist Attractions is in Turin. The Venaria Palace is a really remarkable place, perhaps even bigger and more impressive than the Palace of Versailles.

Why should you visit?

Well just a few reasons are:

• A UNESCO World Heritage Site.

• One of the largest palaces on earth.

• In every way as impressive as the Palace of Versailles.

• 80 hectares of gardens and 6000 hectares of parkland.

• 80,000 square meters of surface area.

• One of the loveliest palaces you will find anywhere - truly beautiful.



Venaria's Palace was built in the 17th century for Charles Emmanuel 11, one of the Savoy kings. The idea was twofold, firstly to build a Palace that would serve as a legacy to him and the wife and secondly to have a "little" country lodge to use as a base on hunting trips and while away from the city taking in the cleaner airs to the north of Torino.

The Palace only opened for the first time to tourists in 2007, after around twenty years of restoration and a fair bit of the palace is still undergoing restoration work.

In fact the project was one of the largest ever undertaken, the gardens alone saw nearly 11 million litres of water being added to the artificial lake and 40,000 new plants were brought in to restore the palace's gardens.

To learn more of the history of the Palace of Venaria and how to get there from Turin visit the official Venaria Palace site.


To return from Venaria Palace to the Turin Museum Guide click here