Palazzo Cavour

The palace, one of the best examples of eighteenth-century Piedmont, is famous for being home to the Piedmontese statesman Count Camillo Benso di Cavour. In these environments is based newspaper "Il Risorgimento" and discuss the fate of the new Italian home with the most illustrious personages of the time. Inside the building there are two courtyards Cavour-one of honor and the rustic, onto which originally placed in the stables-axis and connected to each other by a splayed portal. A spectacular sequence of spaces also brings together an atrium divided into two rooms, vaults with lunettes. Built in 1729 and designed by Gian Giacomo Plantery, Palazzo Cavour was expanded in 1754 with the construction, under the direction of 'architect Joseph Bovis, a new wing on the homonymous street. Palazzo Cavour is now a prestigious exhibition and museum commissioned and managed by the Piedmont Region to provide space for cultural events of large-scale national and international level.