Palazzo Asinari di San Marzano (now Palazzo Carpano)

The palace, characterised by one of the most known and reproduced halls in Turin, decorated with tortile columns, stuccoes, statues and Guarini shapes, was built in 1684 on a project by Michelangelo Garove, engineer of the Duke of Savoy and the prince of Carignano, and it belongs, with the palaces Barolo, Graneri and Morozzo, to the group of noble residences erected at the end of the 17th century and characterised by their striking sumptuousness.

Palazzo Asinari di San Marzano

Although lacking in the vertical development of Palazzo Graneri, it presents itself in more innovative terms as far as the hall is concerned; it is resolved with a sliced vault, foreshadowing the solutions adopted by the Palazzo Provana of Collegno.

On the same line there is the absence of the classic gallery at the noble floor, followed by the splitting of the main room in a double-height environment turning to the yard and in a normal-size room looking towards the façade.

Placed in an homogeneous architectural environment constituted by important Turin buildings made by Guarini (Palazzo Carignano) or by Garove himself, his disciple, it still keeps elegant apartments decorated on a draw by Benedetto Alfieri in the middle of the 18th century.

The garden, enriched in the 19th century with rare exotic plants, was cancelled by the urban development, and since 1885 the yard closes with the neo-baroque background designed by Camillo Boggio.

Palazzo Asinari is now seat of the historical society Carpano, producer of the famous vermouth.