Palazzo Carignano

One of the most original buildings of the Baroque, it was realised in 1679-1684 by Guarino Guarini for the willing of the prince Emanuele Filiberto the Mute, son of Tommaso of Carignano.
The fired brick façade is made in a curvilinear way, with the elliptical central body jutting out to the interior courtyard.

Palazzo Carignano

From the vestibule, two curvilinear staircases lead to the noble floor, where it was situated the party room transformed in 1848 in the room of the Sub Alpine Parliament.
The palace was doubled in size from the interior side with the creation of the 19th century wing by Giuseppe Bollati on a drawing by Gaetano Ferri (1864-1871), with heavy façade towards piazza Carlo Alberto, lying behind.

This one, with and equestrian monument to Carlo Alberto (Carlo Marocchetti, 1861), is bounded on the opposite side by the neoclassical façade of the former stables of the prince of Carignano, annexed to the modern building of the University National Library (1959-1973).

Palazzo Carignano, where Carlo Alberto and Vittorio Emanuele II were born, was the seat of the first Sub Alpine Parliament and then of the first Italian Parliament, until the capital was moved to Florence in 1865.

The building hosts at present the National Museum of the Italian Risorgimento, the Sub Alpine Deputation of the Homeland History, the Institute of Studies of the Risorgimento History and the Superintendence for the Artistic and Historical Goods of Piedmont.