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The Villa della Regina in Turin is one of the Piedmontese Residences of the Royal House of Savoy listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage site.
It is the only vigna collinare (hill vineyard) to have reached us with all the elements that characterize this type of residence: a complex of noble buildings (the villa and the garden pavilions), at the center of Italian-style gardens with fountains enclosed by a wood, complete with agricultural areas (vineyard, farmhouse and vegetable gardens), service buildings (an ice-house and the orangery, known as the citroniera) and - in the past - by stables.
The Villa della Regina is a national museum and as such it belongs to the Soprintendenza per i Beni Storici, Artistici ed Etnoantropologici del Piemonte (Superintendance of Historical, Artistic and Anthropological Resources of Piedmont), to which it was entrusted in 1994 by the Ministero delle Finanze – Compartimento del Territorio (Ministry of Finance – Territorial Department). After being thoroughly restored, since 2006 it has been open to the public.
It is the only vigna collinare (hill vineyard) to have reached us with all the elements that characterize this type of residence: a complex of noble buildings (the villa and the garden pavilions), at the center of Italian-style gardens with fountains enclosed by a wood, complete with agricultural areas (vineyard, farmhouse and vegetable gardens), service buildings (an ice-house and the orangery, known as the citroniera) and - in the past - by stables.
The Villa della Regina is a national museum and as such it belongs to the Soprintendenza per i Beni Storici, Artistici ed Etnoantropologici del Piemonte (Superintendance of Historical, Artistic and Anthropological Resources of Piedmont), to which it was entrusted in 1994 by the Ministero delle Finanze – Compartimento del Territorio (Ministry of Finance – Territorial Department). After being thoroughly restored, since 2006 it has been open to the public.