Seven Wonders | Turin and The Venaria Reale (Episode 3)

Episode 3: In this episode the Venaria Reale, the surprising palace built by Carlo Emanuele II, Duke of Savoy. Venaria Reale (Piedmontese: La Venerìa) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 8 kilometres (5 mi) northwest of Turin.

Founded in Roman times and previously known as Altesssano (Autsan in the Piedmontese language), it was divided into Altessano Superiore and Altesssano Inferiore in the sixteenth century. The upper town was chosen by the House of Savoy as a location for a hunting palace, and its modern name is derived from the Latin for hunting, ars venatoria. It is the only Piedmontese municipality, in addition to Turin, to be able to boast on its territory the presence of more than one Savoy residence: the seventeenth century Royal Palace of Venaria (included in the UNESCO Heritage List in 1997) and the nineteenth-century royal apartments of Borgo Castello, located in La Mandria Regional Park.

The palace of Venaria was designed by the architect Amedeo di Castellamonte. It was commissioned by Duke Carlo Emanuele II who intended to make it the base for hunting trips in the Turin moorland. Subsequently enlarged with countless buildings and buildings where the most important architect of the House of Savoy, Filippo Juvara, also worked.

Episode 4: https://rumble.com/v496e4f-seven-wonders-castel-del-monte-episode-4.html