Rivoli

Monuments and Curiosities

the castle of Rivoli

This castle, most important of the city, shelters, since 1984, a museum of contemporary art.

Already in possession of évêché inhabitant of Turin, the Castle of Rivoli became, in 1280, property of the family of Savoy which used it according to its strategic importance.

Used at the 15th century and during first half of the 16th century like military outpost, it is the castle where was born Charles-Emmanuel {{Ier}} in 1572 and where Victor-Amédée II was locked up when it had tried to take again the crown.

The castle was destroyed partly by the French troops at the end of the 17th century.

It was redrawn by Michelangelo Garove which succeeded Juvarra. The project of Juvarra, which takes again the architectural lines of Garove while increasing spaces and the openings, remains however incomplete, even if the central idea of Victor Emmanuel II, which consisted in creating a symbol of the size of the House of Savoy and controlling the sights and the bonds symbolic systems, seems partially carried out thanks to the axis Rivoli-Superga and with the new construction of Corso Francia which connected the town of Turin to the palate.

After several years of nonsuitable uses and degradations, the castle was restored and transformed into 1984 in a European space of contemporary art. The new museum of Contemporary art shelters a permanent collection which documents, the first in Italy, the contemporary art since the beginning of the Fifties, with works of Giacomo Balla, Dennis Oppenheim, Joseph Kosuth, Rebecca Horn, Mario Merz, Maurizio Cattelan and Gilberto Zorio.

In 1998 " is inaugurated; the Wing longue" , the oldest part of the palate, formerly used like art gallery; it has a 140 meters length and it shelters temporary exhibitions, services of the museum, structures didactic and the museum of Publicity.

Administration

Hamlets

Cascine Vica, Tetti Neirotti, Bruere

Communes bordering

Turin, Pianezza, Caselette, Alpignano, Collegno, Rosta, Grugliasco, Villarbasse, Rivalta di Torino, Orbassano

Demography

See too

List of the Italian cities of more than 25.000 inhabitants

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