I Savoia a Susa. Due Matrimoni, Una Città

The House of Savoy in Susa: Two Weddings, One City is the opening event of the Susa Svelata 2026 series. The exhibition explores Susa through two weddings separated by more than seven hundred years, yet linked by a clear thread. The first is that of Adelaide of Susa and Oddone of Savoy, which took place around 1046: a union barely mentioned in the records yet powerful in its consequences, from which the House of Savoy emerged as we would come to know it for eight centuries. Adelaide was heir to the Marca of Turin and the Susa Valley: the castle bearing her name still stands, with its medieval mullioned windows still visible within the 18th-century structure that envelops it. The second event took place on 31 May 1750, when the Infanta Maria Antonia Fernanda of Bourbon-Spain married Vittorio Amedeo of Savoy in Oulx: the bride arrived from the other end of Europe with four hundred people in her entourage, having crossed the Pyrenees and the Alps. Two women separated by time who did not merely adapt to the world they had arrived in, but shaped it in their own image. The tour begins at the exhibition ‘The Savoys: A Thousand Years of History and Power’, held at the Castle, and winds its way through the historic centre of Susa to Porta Savoia and the surrounding area, accompanied by a tour guide and actors from DDT-Disagiata Distilleria Teatrale. At 8.00 pm, all participants will meet at the Castle for a shared aperitif, a chance for those who have already explored the town to meet those who are about to do so.