Giardini della Reggia di Venaria | Grandi Giardini Italiani

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Opening hours
Open all year round
The ticket office closes one hour before the indicated closing time
Mondays closed, except on public holidays

Reggia Piano Nobile and Exhibitions
Tuesday to Friday: 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays: 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Gardens
Tuesday to Sunday and public holidays: 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
From 1 to 31 March: from 9.30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
On the weekends of 22 and 23 March and 29 and 30 March in the shadow of the cherry blossoms: extended opening hours until 7 p.m.
From 1 April to 24 July: from 9.30 am to 7.30 pm.

Overtime openings

On the occasion of Easter, Liberation Day and Workers' Day
from 19 April to 4 May: from 9.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m.
(special opening on Monday 28 April)

Entrance
Ticket ''All in a Palace''
The ticket includes admission to the Piano Nobile of the Reggia, the Gardens and the current exhibitions
Full ticket: € 20.00
Groups: € 16.00
Reduced (6-21 y.o.) and Students Under 26: € 10.00
Family (2 adults + up to 4 children): € 48.00
Kids (o-6 years): free admission

Contact us
Piazza della Repubblica, 4
10078 Venaria Reale (TO)

T. +39 011 4992333

www.lavenaria.it

History

The Venaria Reale conveys the magnificence of the Savoy royal court between the 17th and 18th centuries.
In the mid-seventeenth century, Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy wanted to build a ''leisure and hunting'' residence, so he commissioned the project to the architect Amedeo di Castellamonte who designed a settlement outside the walls, a royal palace and the gardens.
Declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, La Venaria Reale has undergone a major restoration project, the largest in Europe, which lead to its public opening in 2007. The works carried out in the Gardens, heavily damaged after the Napoleonic occupation, intended to restore their identity and the connection with the surrounding architecture and landscape while evoking and enhancing the seventeenth-eighteenth-century layout.
The Allea Centrale, the water channel that crosses the Parco Basso, connects the reborn Fontana d'Ercole, thanks to recent restoration works, with the Temple of Diana.
The Potager Royal stretches on the sides of the Allea for about 10 hectares in which orchards alternate with flowers and vegetable gardens.
The “Garden of Fluid Sculptures” by Giuseppe Penone completes the garden of the lower park by connecting the wall and the seventeenth-century caves through a reading of the contemporary garden. The upper park houses the flower garden, the rose garden with large ''cushions'' of remontant roses and the Grand Parterre, the most charming area of the eighteenth-century garden that links the important architectural works by Filippo Juvarra such as the Great Gallery, the Citroniera and the Royal Stables.
The Reggia hosts important exhibitions and events almost on a daily basis.
In the summer, the Gardens come alive with shows and events for audiences of all ages.

Architect

Amedeo di Castellamonte

He was born in 1618 in the town of Castellamonte, about 40 kilometres from Turin.
His father, the architect Carlo, is the local count. His mother's name is Ippolita Maria Fiocchetto.
After graduating in law, Amedeo joined his father. His first job was in 1633, at the Valentino Castle.
In 1639 he was awarded the licence of ducal engineer, confirmed in 1641 and 1656. With this task, in 1646, he redesigned the Royal Palace of Turin and the urban area in front of it in its present form.
Other works followed at the church of San Salvario, the convent of Santa Cristina, the castle of Moncalieri and the Villa della Regina.
In 1654, he designed the church of Santi Bernardino e Brigida Lucento and, in the following two years, he was interested in the Chapel of the Shroud in Chambery and the one that the sovereign wanted to create in Turin.
But it is 1658 that is the year that crowns his life, when he starts the building sites of Venaria Reale. Although absorbed by this undertaking, he managed to devote himself to the plans for the enlargement of Turin.
He designed piazza Carlina and the 1250 metre perspective of via Po, which was opened in 1674.
In the meantime, Amedeo also expressed himself as a military architect and stage designer.
In 1680 he designed the new San Giovanni Battista hospital, but did not finish it.
He died on 17th September 1683.

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