A royal city needs a royal palace: and the Royal Palace is a must see within the Turin top attractions.
Turin top attractions: Palazzo Reale, a Royal Palace for two kingdoms
The Royal Palace started his “career” as a bishopric in the XVI Century, then the Savoy family took possession of it.
The palace became the seat of the duchy of Savoy with Emmanuel Philibert, but it was upgraded and enlarged when Emmanuel Philibert’s grandson married in 1619 in Paris the French Princess Christine Marie of France.
The sister of Louis XIII came to live in Turin and she definitely gave to the Palazzo Reale a boost of French grandeur…
The enlargement of the building continued with Christine Marie’s sons and grandson: the Daniel Gallery was created (the name is after Daniel Setier, the Baroque Wien – born painter, the author of the frescoes of the gallery) and the Chapel of the Holy Shroud.
