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• «Specchi del Giappone» Exhibition at the Castello di Racconigi Event

  … is held in the castle's old Chinese Apartment, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Residences of the Royal House of Savoy, and is supported by the Fondazione CRC [1].

• «SuperRospi a corte», exhibition by Salvatore Liistro at Castello di Moncalieri (2026-2027) Event

  … host «SuperRospi a corte», an exhibition curated by Simona Mogliasso with the Royal Residences of the House of Savoy (Residenze Reali Sabaude), as part of the Art in the City – Paratissima 2026 programme.

• 2026 Feast of the Chapel of the Assumption at Castello di Castellamonte Event

  … a unique example of "ephemeral architecture" in Canavese, designed by the architect in the service of the House of Savoy, Amedeo di Castellamonte (1613-1683), who at the time owned the castle and also oversaw the chapel's …

• Agnolotti piemontesi Work

  … pasta. Different stories circulate about the dish's invention. The best-known legend tells of a cook of the House of Savoy named Angelino, who supposedly created agnolotti for a celebratory banquet after an assault on a castle was …

• Alba Place

  … and the Spanish, until the treaty of Cherasco of 6 April 1631 brought it definitively into the state of the House of Savoy. The cathedral of San Lorenzo, a Lombard Gothic building of 1486 entirely rebuilt between 1861 and 1871 by …

• Alessandria Place

  … in 1707 it was ceded to duke Vittorio Amedeo II: from that moment Alessandria entered the state of the House of Savoy, later the Kingdom of Sardinia.

• Asti Place

  … and Francis I. In 1530 Charles V assigned it to Beatrice of Portugal, and from 1538 it passed under the House of Savoy; the treaties of 1614 and 1615 were signed in Asti. From 1799 to 1814 it was French, capital of the …

• Avigliana Place

  … of his son the count set aside his mourning for his father and dressed in red. In 1388 he gained Nice, the House of Savoy 's first outlet to the sea, and died in 1391, at the age of thirty-one, from the effects of a wound suffered …

• Barolo (wine) Work

  The House of Savoy also entered the world of Barolo. In 1858 Vittorio Emanuele II bought the Fontanafredda estate, at …

• Basilica di Maria Ausiliatrice Place

  … II: for Don Bosco, who financed his works with charity lotteries featuring prizes donated by members of the ruling house, the bond with the monarchy was a support worth cultivating. The Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani …

• Basilica of Superga Place

  … by Filippo Juvarra. A votive temple and dynastic mausoleum at once, it holds in its crypt the tombs of the House of Savoy; since 4 May 1949 it has also been the place where the city remembers the Grande Torino.

• Biella Place

  … Visconti, and in 1377 finally freed itself from episcopal lordship. In 1379 it accepted the tutelage of the House of Savoy, to which it returned permanently with the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis of 1559. In 1622 it was raised to the …

• Borromean Islands Place

  Through military campaigns, political offices and marriages — including with the Visconti and with the House of Savoy — the family rose to princely rank within the Milanese patriciate. The main line died out with Saint …

• Canavese Place

  … Amadeus V of Savoy and to Philip, Prince of Achaea. From then on the Canavese was contested between the House of Savoy and Montferrat.

• Cappella della Sindone Place

  … Turin to give a worthy home to the Shroud, the relic that arrived in Turin in 1578, capital of the duchy of the House of Savoy since 1563. The definitive design is owed to the Theatine Guarino Guarini, to whom the chapel was entrusted …

• Carla Fracci Person

  … Carla Fracci. In October 2026 the show sells out for both scheduled dates at the Royal Residences of the House of Savoy: 16 October at the Palace of Venaria and 21 October at the Royal Palace in Turin.

• Carlo Alberto Person

  Belonging to the cadet Carignano branch of the House of Savoy, he left Turin a few months after his birth: when in December 1798 Carlo Emanuele IV was forced to …

• Carmagnola Place

  … it was a stronghold of the Marquisate of Saluzzo, later a border town contested between France and the House of Savoy; in the twentieth century it was Piedmont's hemp capital, and today it is best known for its pepper. Its …

• Casale Monferrato Place

  … twice, in 1681 and 1701, provoking the imperial reaction: in 1708 the emperor assigned Monferrato to the House of Savoy, a transfer confirmed by the treaties of Utrecht (1713) and Rastatt (1714). For the castle there began the …

• Castello di Agliè Place

  … rooms, a park and gardens on several levels, and since 1997 has been part of the Residences of the Royal House of Savoy inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Built as a fortress of the San Martino counts, it passed to the …

• Castello di Moncalieri Place

  In 1730 Victor Amadeus II, the first member of the House of Savoy to hold the title of king, abdicated in favour of his son Charles Emmanuel III; the following year he …

• Castello di Rivoli Place

  … and never finished, a barracks, a ruin and finally a museum: its history traces almost the whole arc of the House of Savoy and, over the last half-century, that of contemporary art in Piedmont.

• Chieri Place

  … half to Amadeus VI of Savoy and half to James of Achaea, and in 1418 it came entirely under the rule of the House of Savoy. Its demographic importance is documented by a figure the 1931 Italian Encyclopaedia recorded as follows:

• Chivasso Place

  … in the plain of Canavese, on the Po. Once a stronghold of the marquises of Monferrato and later of the Savoys, it is today the reference centre of the Chivassese, one of the Metropolitan City's homogeneous zones, …

• Claviere Place

  … with a slight advantage to France. The town thus remained on the western edge of the states of the House of Savoy, and later of the Kingdom of Sardinia and of Italy.

• Collegno Place

  … by then called Collegium, passed from the marquises of Susa to the counts of Turin and finally to the House of Savoy, who in 1599 granted it as a fief to the Provana family. The family remained its feudal lords until the end …

• Cuneo Place

  … followed, until in 1382, after a brief Angevin return, the city entered permanently into the domains of the House of Savoy.

• Double sell-out for the show «Carla With Love» dedicated to Carla Fracci (October 2026) Event

  … and career of the dancer Carla Fracci, sells out both of its scheduled dates at the Royal Residences of the House of Savoy: 16 October at the Palace of Venaria (Reggia di Venaria) and 21 October at the Royal Palace (Palazzo Reale) …

• Egyptian Museum of Turin Place

  The interest of the House of Savoy, the dynasty that ruled Piedmont from Turin and later became Italy's royal family, in Egypt is older than …

• Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia Person

  Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia is the Head of the Royal House of Savoy. He also chairs AICODS, an international association based in Geneva that brings together members of the …

• Emmanuel Philibert Person

  … Duchess Margaret, proclaiming it the seat of the court. From that day the history of the city and that of Casa Savoia proceed together for three centuries.

• Filippo Juvarra Person

  … Club. The church was inaugurated on 1 November 1731. In its crypt rest the kings and princes of the House of Savoy, from Vittorio Amedeo II to Carlo Alberto.

• Fort of Exilles Place
• Galleria Sabauda Place

  … in 1832 at the behest of Carlo Alberto with paintings accumulated over centuries by the dukes and kings of the House of Savoy, it is now part of the Musei Reali and displays around five hundred works across four floors of the Manica …

• Gazzetta del Popolo Organisation

  … «L'Italiano - Gazzetta del Popolo» and it followed a national-liberal line: unification of Italy under the House of Savoy and Rome as capital. It was published in four pages at five centesimi a copy, and thanks to its direct …

• Giuseppe Luigi Lagrange Person

  … natural-historical research. In 1760 it became the "Royal Society" and in 1783, under the protection of the House of Savoy, the Academy of Sciences of Turin, the institution that still bears that name today.

• Gran Madre di Dio Place

  In 1814 the House of Savoy returned to Turin after sixteen years of exile. To celebrate the event the municipality chose to build a …

• Gran Paradiso National Park Place

  The centenary of the House of Savoy 's reserve turned park was celebrated in 2022 with a year of events, an opening ceremony in Rome attended by …

• Grissino torinese Work

  The story of its origins revolves around Vittorio Amedeo II, heir of the House of Savoy and, as a very young duke, of fragile health: thin, without appetite, often ill. To get him to eat, the …

• Guarino Guarini Person

  … portal instead dates his call, to extend the Cathedral, to 1667. In 1668 Duke Charles Emmanuel II of the House of Savoy named him his "engineer and mathematician."

• Ivrea Place

  … (1266), and Charles of Anjou (1271); on the death of Emperor Henry VII, in 1313, it gave itself to the House of Savoy; after the interlude of the Palaeologi, margraves of Monferrato (1347-1356), it steadily followed the …

• Kingdom of Sardinia altro

  The Kingdom of Sardinia was the state through which the House of Savoy governed, from 1720 to 1861, the island of Sardinia together with its mainland dominions: Piedmont, Savoy, …

• La Venaria Reale Place

  … when he moved the capital to Turin in 1562, and continued by his successors to display the power of the House of Savoy.

• Lake Maggiore Place

  … Arona passed to the Kingdom of Sardinia, together with the Alto Novarese, which the treaty ceded to the House of Savoy along with the Vigevanasco and the Oltrepò Pavese. This is the origin of the border that still splits the …

• Limone Piemonte Place

  … then by the counts of Tenda, and between 1575 and 1579 passed to Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy. For the House of Savoy the pass became a strategic link: the carriage road was begun by Carlo Emanuele I in 1591 and completed by …

• Marco Grimaldi Person

  … In September 2026 he filed a parliamentary question about the sale of chivalric orders by the Royal House of Savoy during an event in Turin, challenging the participation of Piedmont Region vice president Maurizio Marrone.

• Margherita of Savoy Person

  Margherita of Savoy, queen of Italy and later queen mother, is a figure of the House of Savoy linked to the Turin area through the Stupinigi Hunting Lodge, a residence she frequented in the early …

• Masino Castle Place
• Maurizio Marrone Person

  … Piedmont Region. In September 2026 his attendance at the Turin events of the Dynastic Orders of the Royal House of Savoy was criticised by Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra, whose MP Marco Grimaldi filed a parliamentary question on the …

• Moncalieri Place

  … 56,944 inhabitants. A town born in the thirteenth century, it became one of the favourite residences of the House of Savoy, and from its castle in 1849 came the proclamation that marked a turning point in the constitutional …

• Monte dei Cappuccini Place

  … A bastita, a small fortress built in the thirteenth century, once stood on the hill: in November 1248 Thomas II of Savoy, named imperial vicar by Frederick II, gained control of Turin, of the bridge with its tower and of the …

• Monte Rosa Place

  … a supporter of education and of the Walser speech of his parishioners. The cheers for Carlo Alberto and the House of Savoy, sovereigns of the Kingdom of Sardinia, are read by the Dizionario Biografico as a sign of the priest's …

• Montferrat Place

  … 1708 it was a state of its own, a marquisate and later a duchy that contested territories and towns with the Savoys until it was absorbed by them. Since 2014 part of its wine-growing landscape has been a UNESCO World …

• National Automobile Museum Place

  … is the 1909 Itala 35/45 HP known as "Palombella" ("little dove"), which belonged to Queen Margherita of the House of Savoy, who gave it its nickname: bodied in Milan by Cesare Sala, it has a chassis identical to that of the Itala …

• Nichelino Place

  … of Nichelino was transformed by the construction of the hunting residence that Juvarra designed for the House of Savoy: more than 31,000 square metres of buildings and 150,000 of gardens and park, expanded throughout the 18th …

• Novara Place

  … with Tortona, was acquired by Charles Emmanuel III, King of Sardinia, and thus entered the state of the House of Savoy governed from Turin. In the Napoleonic era it was the capital of the Agogna department, and in 1814 it …

• Orbassano Place

  … the bishops of Turin were settled by the agreement of 1253. In 1327 Orbassano was granted as a fief to the House of Savoy, who entrusted it once again to the lords of Rivalta; on the death of Risbaldo Orsini in 1341 the family …

• Palazzo Carignano Place

  The building was the home of the Carignano, a collateral branch of the House of Savoy. Two commemorative plaques still recall that within these walls Carlo Alberto and his son Vittorio Emanuele …

• Palazzo Chiablese Place
• Palazzo Madama Place

  … a single building: a gate of Augusta Taurinorum, a medieval castle, the residence of two regents of the House of Savoy, the chamber of the first Senate and finally a museum. The name comes from the «Madame Reali» (Royal …

• Parliamentary Question on the Sale of Chivalric Orders by the Royal House of Savoy (September 2026) Event

  … MP Marco Grimaldi filed a parliamentary question regarding the sale of chivalric orders by the Royal House of Savoy, carried out during an event held in Turin. The affair also involved the Piedmont Region, where the …

• Piazza Castello Place

  Piazza Castello is the central square of Turin, the place from which the Savoy governed their state for three centuries. At its centre stands Palazzo Madama, born on a Roman gate; the …

• Piazza Vittorio Veneto Place

  With the Restoration and the return to Turin of Vittorio Emanuele I of Savoy, the city resumed its growth toward the Po. The entry on "Turin" in the Enciclopedia Italiana (1937) places …

• Piedmont Place

  … municipalities at the start of 2024, after a series of mergers that had left 1,206 in 2015. Cradle of the House of Savoy and the first nucleus of the unified Italian state, Piedmont was for a century also the region of the …

• Piedmontese language altro

  … were dedicated to Maria Adelaide Clotilde Saveria of France, Princess of Piedmont by marriage into the House of Savoy, who had insisted on learning the local speech; Pipino stated that he was describing the "Turinese or …

• Pinerolo Place

  … valley and to the Waldensian valleys, it was the capital of the Piedmontese domains of a branch of the House of Savoy, a French stronghold for more than a century, a state prison under Louis XIV, and, between the nineteenth …

• Porta Palazzo Place
• Real Chiesa di San Lorenzo Place

  The church is still used for worship and remains tied to the history of the House of Savoy and of the Shroud: next to the sacristy a copy of the cloth is on display, explained by volunteer guides, …

• Regional Council of Piedmont Organisation

  … Region's vice president Maurizio Marrone on his participation in celebrations of the dynastic Orders of the House of Savoy.

• Residences of the Royal House of Savoy Place

  The Savoy Residences are the system of palaces, castles and villas built or transformed by the House of Savoy in Turin and its surroundings between the end of the sixteenth century and the nineteenth. Since 1997, …

• Rift in the Savoy Royal Family over the Dynastic Honours Scandal (October 2026) Event
• Rivoli Place

  … three centuries it was contested between bishops and counts, then it became the preferred residence of the Savoys for their stays on this side of the Alps, and its castle today houses a museum of contemporary art.

• Rocciamelone Place

  … to the summit, took the triptych and brought it to Rivoli, to the court of Duke Carlo Emanuele II of Savoy. Since then the work has never returned to the summit: it was kept in Susa, first in the church of San …

• Royal Armoury of Turin Place
• Royal Palace of Turin Place

  The Royal Palace (Palazzo Reale) of Turin is the residence that the House of Savoy built, inhabited and remodelled for three centuries, from the late sixteenth century until 1865. It closes …

• Sacra di San Michele Place

  … who still look after it today. The king also wanted the abbey to hold the remains of some members of the House of Savoy: the stone sarcophagi, moved there in those years, are lined up along the sides of the church. In the 19th …

• Sanctuary of Oropa Place
• Sauze d'Oulx Place

  … until the Treaty of Utrecht, at the start of the eighteenth century, when the upper valley passed to the Savoy; what remains is the memory of an alpine culture with a Provençal-based language.

• Settimo Torinese Place

  In the Middle Ages Settimo was contested between the marquises of Monferrato and the House of Savoy, who prevailed in 1435. In the 15th century the defensive system comprised a lordly castle, a fortified …

• Shroud of Turin Work

  … ceded it to Duke Ludovico of Savoy, probably in 1453 in Geneva. From then on the cloth remained with the House of Savoy for more than five centuries.

• Siege of Turin of 1706 Event

  … the Franco-Spanish army besieged the capital of the Duchy of Savoy, defended by its garrison and by the House of Savoy, allied with the Habsburgs, until the battle of 7 September, fought between the Dora and the Stura, forced …

• Stresa Place

  … tourist resort: the philosopher Antonio Rosmini died here, the family of the Dukes of Genoa, a branch of the House of Savoy, stayed here, Ernest Hemingway passed through, and in 1935 the heads of government of Italy, France and …

• Stupinigi Hunting Lodge Place

  Stupinigi was also the setting for dynastic ceremonies of the House of Savoy: the wedding of Maria Teresa of Savoy to Charles Philippe, Count of Artois, the future Charles X of France, …

• Susa Place

  … historical guide, the marriage was celebrated in the Susa cathedral itself. This was the act by which the House of Savoy set foot on the Italian side of the Alps, from where it would later descend to Turin.

• Teatro Regio Place

  With the Restoration the Regio returned to the House of Savoy. Under Carlo Alberto the hall was given a neoclassical look by Ernesto Melano and Pelagio Palagi, and in …

• The addresses of the Province of Turin altro

  … the area to foreign tourists: Turin, «the capital of the Alps», described through «the splendours of the House of Savoy, the Unification of Italy, great Baroque churches and palaces, prestigious museums, the car industry, …

• Theft of antique clocks at the Palace of Venaria (19 October 2026) Event

  … 18th-century English and French clocks, donated in 2012 to the Consortium of the Royal Residences of the House of Savoy and valued at over 100,000 euros, breaking the shatterproof case in which they were kept.

• Turin Place

  … to the sacrifice of the miner Pietro Micca. The victory led to a considerable expansion of the state of the House of Savoy, and Turin took on its eighteenth-century face: Filippo Juvarra completed La Venaria, designed churches …

• Turin Cathedral Place
• Turin State Archive Organisation
• Umberto I Person

  … Son of Vittorio Emanuele II and Maria Adelaide of Austria, grandson of Carlo Alberto, and a prince of the House of Savoy, he was born and raised in Turin when the city was still the capital of the Sardinian kingdom. His reign …

• Umberto II Person

  … to the city also through his will, which left the Shroud to the Holy See and the historical archive of the House of Savoy to the State, destined for the Turin State Archives.

• Val di Susa Place

  … by Hugh of Montboissier; nearly destroyed by the French in 1629, it became a burial place for members of the House of Savoy and has been entrusted to the Rosminians since 1836.

• Venaria Reale Place

  … Lanzo; it has about 32,000 inhabitants. The old village of Altessano was remade in the 17th century by the House of Savoy as a planned town serving the court's hunting residence, today's Palace of Venaria: town and palace were …

• Vercelli Place

  … ceded Vercelli to Duke Amedeo VIII of Savoy, and from then on the city's history was bound to that of the House of Savoy and, later, of Turin as capital. In the duchy's most difficult period, when much of Piedmont was occupied by …

• Vermouth di Torino Work

  … first bottled vermouths. According to Slow Food, vermouth was born in eighteenth-century Turin thanks to the House of Savoy, which, being related to the ruling house of Vienna, engaged in gastronomic exchanges with it.

• Vicoforte Place

  … Sanctuary, a basilica that periodically hosts ceremonies and commemorations linked to the history of the House of Savoy, organised in collaboration with institutes and associations dedicated to the memory of the Italian royal …

• Victor Emmanuel II Person

  … dynastic tradition called for kings to be buried in the basilica di Superga, where twenty members of the Casa Savoia are laid to rest.

• Villa della Regina Place

  … the marriage was meant to cement the restored harmony between the duchess and her brothers-in-law within the House of Savoy. The prince died in Turin on October 3, 1657. His widow expanded the complex, adding four corner pavilions, …

• Vittorio Amedeo II Person

  … was duke of Savoy from 1675 to 1730, king of Sicily from 1713 and king of Sardinia from 1720: under him the House of Savoy rose from ducal to royal rank. An ally of Austria in the War of the Spanish Succession, he obtained Sicily …

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