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Galleria Sabauda (Torino)

Galleria Sabauda (Torino)

It is one of the most important painting galleries in Italy. Established in 1832 following the request of Carlo Alberto, it preserves the Royal Palace collection with paintings from the picture gallery of Dukes and the Kings of Savoy and is located in the Academy of Science...

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MAO - Museo d’Arte Orientale (Torino)

MAO - Museo d’Arte Orientale (Torino)

The Museo d’Arte Orientale (Museum of Oriental Art) – the MAO – is located at the former Palazzo Mazzonis in Via San Domenico on the corner with Via S. Agostino, in the heart of Torino’s centre. Thanks to the Fondazione Torino Musei...

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Museo delle Antichità Egizie (Torino)

Museo delle Antichità Egizie (Torino)

The Museo Egizio (Egypt Museum) offers the largest collection after the museum in Cairo and consists of 30,000 pieces that document Egyptian history and civilization, as well as conserving unique pieces and objet d’art collections from daily and funerary use.

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Palazzo Reale (Museum - Torino)

Palazzo Reale (Museum - Torino)

A magnificent 17th century structure, the residency of the Dukes of Savoy, of the Kings of Sardinia, and of the Kings of Italy until 1865, is the center – from an urban point of view, as well as from an historical, architectural, and artistic point of view.

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Museo delle Arti Decorative Fondazione Pietro Accorsi (Torino)

Museo delle Arti Decorative Fondazione Pietro Accorsi (Torino)

Inaugurated in 1999, the Museum of Decorative Arts was created with respect to and in the taste of its founder, the antiquarian Pietro Accorsi. The home-museum that includes about thirty rooms with hundreds of objects – furniture, tapestries, carpets, paintings...

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Castello Ducale (Aglié)

Castello Ducale (Aglié)

The castle, built in the Middle Ages, with its two imposing lateral wings and central staircase acquires its current structure only during the second half of the 18th century thanks to the efforts of court architect Ignazio Birago di Borgaro.

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Castello Reale (Moncalieri)

Castello Reale (Moncalieri)

The beginnings of the Moncalieri Castle date back to the 13th century. Enlarged during the second half of the 15th century by Jolanda di Valois and then by Carlo Emanuele I near the end of the 16th century, the castle owes its present structure...

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Museo Civico e Pinacoteca di Palazzo Mazzetti (Asti)

Museo Civico e Pinacoteca di Palazzo Mazzetti (Asti)

Nel contesto sociale cittadino Palazzo Mazzetti testimonia l’affermazione di una famiglia di nobili origini, arricchitasi con l’attività della Zecca e con attenti acquisti immobiliari. L’edificio occupa il sito dell’antica casaforte dei Turco, ...

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Museo del Castello di Masino (Caravino)

Museo del Castello di Masino (Caravino)

The Castle, the property of Fai since 1987, was the residency of the Valperga counts for ten centuries and was originally surrounded by walls and towers. It is immersed in an enormous 24 hectare park which dominates the Canavese plain.

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Museo del Tesoro di Oropa (Biella)

Museo del Tesoro di Oropa (Biella)

Inaugurated in May 2003, the new Museo del Tesoro (Treasure Museum) in Oropa has gold, jewels, liturgical paraments, and historical mementoes which the Sanctuary had housed for centuries. In the first two rooms...

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