Residenze Sabaude - Castello di Agliè Agliè

The English park of the nineteenth century is one of the peculiarities of the Castello di Agliè, inside the park it is possible to admire the exedra of the fountain with some statues created by the sculptors Ignazio and Filippo Collino in the seventies of the eighteenth century. The sculptures represent the Orco, Malone, and Dora rivers, a newt, and other animals situated in the Italian garden of the castle. The Collino brothers were masters in the study of classical sculpture and students of the sculptor Claudio Francesco Beaumont who sent Ignazio Collino to study in Rome in 1748. When he went back to Turin around 1760, Ignazio and his brother started to work on important works commissioned by the Piedmontese.