La Venaria Reale
Jun. 17th, 2009 11:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
london1967Here are a few pictures of the Royal Palace/hunting lodge I visited last week in the outskirts of Turin (with some of the attached town).
It was reopened a few years ago after one of the largest renovation projects in Europe: the palace had been terribly neglected and no-one would have expected for it to go back to such splendour.
The works (the buildings and the garden) are not finished yet.
Apparently, this place was the inspiration for Louis XVI's Versailles, though of course it is on a smaller scale.
The views of the garden from the palace reminded me of "The Sound of Music".
Something that puzzled me was the use of metal cages to contain the flower plants in the formal garden; the mystery was quickly solved when I kept spotting hares running about.
There is also a multimedia installation by UK director Peter Greenaway and, if you are so inclined, you can read about it here.
It was reopened a few years ago after one of the largest renovation projects in Europe: the palace had been terribly neglected and no-one would have expected for it to go back to such splendour.
The works (the buildings and the garden) are not finished yet.
Apparently, this place was the inspiration for Louis XVI's Versailles, though of course it is on a smaller scale.
The views of the garden from the palace reminded me of "The Sound of Music".
Something that puzzled me was the use of metal cages to contain the flower plants in the formal garden; the mystery was quickly solved when I kept spotting hares running about.
There is also a multimedia installation by UK director Peter Greenaway and, if you are so inclined, you can read about it here.
