Palazzo del Senato Sabaudo (Savoy Senate)

In 1720, on a project by Filippo Juvarra, it was opened the building yard that overlooks the street that from the Quartieri Militari (the Military Neighbourhoods) (two symmetrical buildings used as barracks built by Juvarra himself, situated in corso Palestro and via del Carmine) it allows us to reach the Palazzo di Città, for the realisation of a building intended to host the Senate Magistratures and the Chamber of Accounts.

Palazzo del Senato Sabaudo

For the opening of the building yard medieval pre-existences were demolished; the part built by Juvarra occupies the south-east part of the plot.

In the building yard, among many interruptions, came Benedetto Alfieri (1740), Giovambattista Feroggio (1788) and Ignazio Michela (1830-1838).

Although the interruptions during the building phases, the architectural style used felt of the 18th-century roots, opening itself, nevertheless, to neo-classical references already present in Piedmont since the second half of the 18th century.

Seat of the Savoy Senate and of the Royal Chamber of Accounts in the past century, the building presents the front characterised by a tetrastyle pronaos leaned to the masonry with Corinthian semi-pillars and a double order of windows. The giant order of the façade sets up over a high base.

Nowadays the palace is seat of the judicial offices, and until a few years ago it hosted the Turin Law Courts, now moved to the "judicial citadel" in corso Vittorio Emanuele II.