PALAZZO CARIGNANO - MUSEO DEL RISORGIMENTO
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Palace with a modern and attractive museography with different collections in video form.
Palazzo Carignano is one of the most sumptuous buildings in Turin, designed by Guarino Guarini in 1679. Its curvilinear facade decorated with red bricks is remarkable. It was in this baroque palace that the first king of a unified Italy, Victor Emmanuel II, was born in 1820. The palace was the seat of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Sardinia, then, from 1861 to 1865, the seat of the first Italian Parliament when Turin was the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. The perfectly preserved chamber of the Parliament can be visited. Today the palace houses the National Museum of the Italian Risorgimento. The modern and attractive museography allows the non-Italian visitor, who is not particularly familiar with the history of Italian Unification, to understand this phase of the history of the boot. The rich collections (nearly 3,000 documents in thirty rooms) are presented in chronological order, and the visit is facilitated by explanations in the form of videos, establishing links and parallels between Italian unity and European construction over the past two hundred years, also mixing the French Revolution and Napoleonic conquest... Audioguides in French are fortunately available to understand such a complex subject. The visit of this rich museum, which will delight history lovers, takes half a day, but you will come out of it a true specialist of the Risorgimento! If you don't have that much time, there are quicker tours!
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