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The Royal Museums of Turin are located in the heart of the ancient city and offer a fascinating itinerary of history, art and nature that winds its way through the centuries, with evidence dating from prehistoric to modern times. The Royal Palace, the center of the Savoy family, preserves rooms, furnishings and works of art created between the 16th and 20th centuries.
Musei Reali di Torino, FacciataMusei Reali
The facade, preceded by the gate designed by Pelagio Palagi, conceals opulent interiors designed and decorated by great artists such as Daniel Seiter, Claudio Beaumont, and Francesco De Mura, and by architects such as Filippo Juvarra and Benedetto Alfieri.
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The staircase connects the Armory to the Royal Library, founded in 1831 by Charles Albert, who expanded the court library with numerous volumes purchased from antiquarians throughout Europe. Of great value is the collection of drawings, with specimens from the 15th to the 18th century, the work of great masters including Michelangelo, Raphael, and Rembrandt. Prominent among them is the famous core of Leonardo da Vinci's Self-Portrait and Codex on the Flight of Birds.
Cappella della Sindone by Guarino GuariniMusei Reali
After a long and difficult restoration, the tour of the Royal Museums also includes the Chapel of the Shroud, admirable Baroque architecture designed by Guarino Guarini in the second half of the 17th century.
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Through the Sala del Medagliere is access to the Royal Armory, opened to the public in 1837, which houses a very rich collection of arms and armor from the archaeological period to the 19th century.
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The Galleria Sabauda, which holds great masterpieces from the major European schools documents the collecting taste of the Savoy family in painting, from van Eyck to Rubens and van Dyck, from Mantegna, to Paolo Veronese, to Orazio Gentileschi, to Guido Reni.
Galleria SabaudaMusei Reali
Ordered chronologically, the Gallery is located in the Manica Nuova of the Royal Palace and also houses two important collections: that of Flemish and Dutch paintings from the collections of Prince Eugene of Savoy-Soissons, and that of the financier Riccardo Gualino, with large paintings ranging from Duccio, to Botticelli, to Francesco Guardi. The ground floor of the Gallery is enhanced by the section Another Harmony. Renaissance Masters in Piedmont.
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Established in 1724 as the Museum of the Royal University and, since 1832, Royal Museum of Greek, Roman and Egyptian Antiquities, the Museum of Antiquities overlooks the archaeological area of the recently restored Roman Theater.
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Established in the sixteenth century as a Savoy dynastic collection, the archaeological collection was enriched by the arrival of Bernardino Drovetti's Egyptian collection; after its separation from the Egyptian Museum, it houses archaeological find it houses archaeological finds from excavations conducted in the Piedmontese territory, including the Treasure of Marengo.
Galleria ArcheologicaMusei Reali
The Archaeological Gallery, a new exhibit on the ground floor of the New Channel of the Royal Palace, holds important collections of the ancient Mediterranean, collected by the Savoy family since the late 16th century.
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The Royal Gardens, the hub of the entire complex, were created by Duparc, enlarged during the 17th century by André le Nôtre and completed in the following century with the statuary group of Tritons by Simone Martinez.
