Palazzo Birago di Borgaro

The palace is one of the first architectural labours of the Turin man Filippo Juvarra, who found himself in experimenting the theme of the high level noble residence.

Palazzo Birago di Borgaro

Built starting from 1716, the palace presents an honour yard with high theatrical value, with curvilinear backdrops along which the carriages could make a U-turn.
The small buildings had the function of protecting from the service spaces placed in the sides, reachable from the other wheelwright halls place in the main front.

Defined in the façade by pilasters that stick out the parts corresponding to the three accesses, it is decorated, at the level of the cornice by two balustrades crowned by statues probably coming from the gardens of the Castello di Venaria Reale, donated in the second half of the 18th century to the earl of Borgaro.

In the front of the court the illusion of the fake splay of the central arch of the noble floor repeats the serial motif of the ground floor, corresponding to the hall.
This tripartite opening frames, for those who observe from the street, the fulcrum of the architectonical wing of the court, ornament not only of the palace, then, but also of the public street.

It is this one of the specific characteristics of the Turin architecture, well understood, in the middle of the 18th century, by a learned traveller like Nicolas Cochin.
Inside the guides signalled also in the last century paintings by Crosato, painter of international fame active for the Savoy court in the Villa della Regina and the Palazzina di Caccia of Stupinigi.

The palace, restored in 1989 by the Cassa Edile di Mutualità e Assistenza of the architects Enrico and Luca Villani of Vercelli, is now property of the Chamber of Commerce of Turin.