Three architects, three building sites in three centuries

In the course of three centuries, every ruler who settled in the palace of Agliè called his/her trusted architect to adapt the architecture, the furniture, and the park according to his/her needs but also to the fashion of the time. Therefore, Filippo D’Agliè in the mid-seventeenth century called the ducal architect Amedeo di Castellamonte to create a dwelling able to reach the standards of a ruling house. One century later, Carlo Emanuele III commissioned Ignazio Birago di Borgaro to enlarge the building and redesign the park by calling the artists of the time for the decorations of the interior and the outside. In the 1820s, Carlo Felice and Maria Cristina di Borbone, lovers of the arts, asked the architect Borda di Saluzzo to adapt the interiors in order to create a theater, galleries for paintings, and rooms for archaeological finds.

Aerial photograph of the Ducal Palace of Agliè

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