Palazzo Benso di Cavour

The palace, also known to have been the house of the statesman Camillo earl of Cavour, was born in 1729 on a project by the Gian Giacomo Plantery and commissioned by the earl Michele Antonio Benso of Cavour.

Palazzo Cavour

The building is articulated around the honour courtyard and the rustic one (with stables and entrance from via Lagrange) placed in axes and linked by a splayed portal, according to a spectacular sequence of spaces that comprehends the hall divided in two environments with vaults with lunette webs and decorated in stuccoes.

The staircase, placed, unlike the others, annexed to the façade (perhaps to guarantee more environments exposed to south), is decorated by a vault painted in the 19th century.

In the noble floor there are in the hall two big rooms, the one that looks on the street is bigger than the other and it is decorated in the vault by neobaroque stuccoes of the first 19th century, conceived with other originals present in the palace.

In the corner of via Cavour and Lagrange there are still the decorated rooms on a project by Benedetto Alfieri in the years 1757-1758, characterised by covers in cut and golden wood.

In 1754 the palace was enlarged with the construction of the new wing on via Cavour, on a project by Giuseppe Bovis.