Description
Palazzo Barolo is a patrician residence on Via delle Orfane, in the heart of Turin, built at the end of the 17th century. Visitors find a Baroque palace with stucco, frescoes and grand halls, where in the 19th century the Marchesi di Barolo and the writer Silvio Pellico lived.
Inside, what stands out is the staircase, in the center of the palace and not at the side as was customary in 17th-century noble palaces. Around it you see the stucco of Pietro Somasso, the canvases of Francesco Trevisani and the frescoes of the Legnani.
On the main floor are the Rococo rooms designed in the mid-18th century by Benedetto Alfieri. The Green Room holds a fresco by Luigi Morgari depicting The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis.
The route also includes the room of Silvio Pellico, the writer who, after the imprisonment he recounted in My Prisons, was a guest of the marchesi for many years.
The palace is still the seat of the Opera Barolo, which, by the testamentary wish of the marchesa Giulia, continues the charitable and social service work begun by her and her husband Tancredi.
A promised dowry that was never paid. That is why the marchese Gabriele Falletti di Barolo left the palace, taking his three children with him. His wife, Elena Matilde, at only 26, threw herself from the window of her room.
The palace had been built by her father, Count Ottavio Provana di Druento, first equerry to Victor Amadeus II, who entrusted it to Gian Francesco Baroncelli. But its finest season was still to come.
In the 19th century Tancredi and Giulia di Barolo lived here, a devout and generous couple: free schools, help for the poor, assistance for women prisoners. With them the family line died out, and the palace passed to the Opera Pia Barolo.
In 1906 the south side was torn down to widen Via Corte d'Appello. On the paving you can still see the trace of the original perimeter, a line that recalls where the palace used to reach.
Inside, what stands out is the staircase, in the center of the palace and not at the side as was customary in 17th-century noble palaces. Around it you see the stucco of Pietro Somasso, the canvases of Francesco Trevisani and the frescoes of the Legnani.
On the main floor are the Rococo rooms designed in the mid-18th century by Benedetto Alfieri. The Green Room holds a fresco by Luigi Morgari depicting The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis.
The route also includes the room of Silvio Pellico, the writer who, after the imprisonment he recounted in My Prisons, was a guest of the marchesi for many years.
The palace is still the seat of the Opera Barolo, which, by the testamentary wish of the marchesa Giulia, continues the charitable and social service work begun by her and her husband Tancredi.
A promised dowry that was never paid. That is why the marchese Gabriele Falletti di Barolo left the palace, taking his three children with him. His wife, Elena Matilde, at only 26, threw herself from the window of her room.
The palace had been built by her father, Count Ottavio Provana di Druento, first equerry to Victor Amadeus II, who entrusted it to Gian Francesco Baroncelli. But its finest season was still to come.
In the 19th century Tancredi and Giulia di Barolo lived here, a devout and generous couple: free schools, help for the poor, assistance for women prisoners. With them the family line died out, and the palace passed to the Opera Pia Barolo.
In 1906 the south side was torn down to widen Via Corte d'Appello. On the paving you can still see the trace of the original perimeter, a line that recalls where the palace used to reach.